The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-13
NOTES OF A NEM YORKER

NOTES or A NEW YORKER
 One of the AslOr tribe is quoted as telling intimates that the ex- Mrs. J. J. Astor uegardless of the rumors) will not wed again until wars end. Her next husband will probly be John Grant, now Ser Seant at the Dover Army Air Field CDelaware) London military ex- perts believe that Gen. Eisenhower will inherit Gen. Marshalls high post with Marshall assigned to run the Pacific war) and that Gen. Bradley or British Field Marshal Alexander will get Eisenhower's job ii Europe FDR and Atty .-Genl 5iddle are moving to end exclu- sion of people from India-trom he U. s. The reason: The mag lificent assistance to U. s. forces oy Indias 2h million volunteer army. This means 75 people from India would be admitted here per year Mayor LaGuardia is again being groomed to go to Italy-this ime as a civilian director of UNRRA It. Gen. Somervell will get that .
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 Airline Judge of the films was wearing her 97 karat diamond (and baquettes) sparkler in one of the roadway night places. A gangster at the next table was overheard say ing: If l tawt dat ting was real, I'd bite her finger off!' |. One of the casualties of the curfeW is Tom my Lyman, the torch thrush, who made mmt comforting torch-car- r:ers and others in the middle of = the-night. It was his career. His spot is now shuttered Haber- dasners tell you not to be surprised Ii within a year you can't buy any ties In ITO Have and Have Not Bogart calls Bacall slim That's nickname of Mrs. Howard Hawks, whose groom directed the film. In the picture Bacal talks a lot ana acts little the way Mrs. Hawks does in private life The white streak in Lauren's han was also to remind MT. Hawks of his beloved.
 Nancy Carroll, the former screen screen star, may get rich. Shd visited war plant with a friend who showed her a postwar miracle machine which will save sleeping persons from suffocating via gas leaks, etc. Nancy improved or Il that night trying to fall asleep. She patented a gadget to tell you things the advertisers say your best friends wouldn't tell you Nancy says she may call 1t: Nancy Car roli's Breath Taking Machine" ..., The Nays Two Jima techni-coiol picture are the most exciting action shots yet. They should be made into a irl!-length feature Don Anne che, friends say won't accept any radio or movie role unless first okayed by the family padre.
 WOmrath's book store in Brook lyn apparently has shatter-prooi windows. One counter prominently displays Noel Coward's Middle East Diary" An American cargo plane Crowded with supplies) now goes over The Hump to Chinf every two minutes around the cloci There are 53,000 night worker! in Manhattan Wall Streeter' hear that mag publisher H. Luc' bought 100000 shares of Houston Oii stock. The investment was main ly made, they add, because of tho firms great timber lands Mayor Hague is worried man. H. has no opponent for the election The Repubs here seek coali' ton with the Demmys for the or flee of Mayor. They'll take anybody except The Hat John Rose Gill dea, rated as a coming great in tht poetry jungle about Is years ago, 1! now a messenger boy in Greenwich Village Variety's Jack Pulask