The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-29
MAN ABOUT TOW N

MAN ABOUT TOW N
 Eaeng Bergen and Frances Wes-
 hermann are expected to confirm
 Rhoir longtime merger plans in
 Hwood this wk They say Arr
 tine Judge will become Renotable
 nnd wed an ad exec The Dwight |
 Deere Wimans (he's the B'way bhowman now directing the London I Red CroSs) are rehearsing their fin-
 ble The ex-convict whose plot
 to kidnap Betty Grable was in- terrupted is last-named Williams. She still has a guard and her ! gather and husband tote gats |. i Ehe O. D. T. will order all dining ears removed from choo- choos trav
 eling less than $50 miles The
 Newspaper Guild will invade the ra-
 bio field (to organize it) next Sum-
 kner The John Farrows new
 image is practically here. Mother
 bs Maureen O'Sullivan The fast est friendship in the thittir Oibby Holman and Clifton Webb has lcicled into a simple "howjoodoo" If Woolworth Donahue keeps spend- Ing that much time in Carole Lan- dis dressing room, he'll have to| join Equityl
 Princess AnaStasia of Greece . King Peters mother-in-law) is now wearing the pants in the Yugo- slav royal tribe She is blamed for the recent crisis Mussolini, our nations detectives learn, is squawk- ing that his Nazi friends not only robbed everyone else in Italy but even took all of his personal posses pions Swiss scribes believe . Gen1 Guderian will be replaced as Nazi Eastern commander. Because . of his terrific argument with Hitler, Nho fought against the big with 7 nrawals The State Departments press dept has been told quietly ! that there haven't been enough pictures of the new boss in the pa- z pers All the permanent SOL TlierS at Santa Ana are quietly be- ing shipped oversees to make room For returnees Oracle Allen, who had a good ghostwriter, has replaced him Lola Montez s watches every show at the Latin Quarter now that Bob Douglas is s singing there. (Monotonous, isn't 1t, tootsO
 s F. D. R., in his capsule criticism of colyumists recently, referred to ] them as "excrescences," which he said were something like warts" The Almanac for Moderns," by Donald c. Peattie, however, con- tains this eyebrow-lifter for MT. President and the colyuming craft: : "The beauty of butterfly's wing, s the beauty or all things, is not Z slave to purpose, a drudge sold to futurity. It is excrescence, super 7 abundance, random ebullience, and s sheer delightful waste to be en- . joyeA in its own high light. That, while not an exoneration, 2 sems to be justification in as ! beautiful a backhand shot, worthy } as any dissenting opinion handed ! down by the U. s. Supreme Court. <, Nancy CarrOlPs all-of -a- sudden new tnetrest is Robert Douty of ! the Canadian Army. They may be betrothed by now .. A Texas lum- $ ber king is being sued in Supreme Court here this week by gall
 about town. His defense counsel confidently expect here to drop it when they bazooka boomerangs :. Warmers Is upset because of the ! similarity between Meet Me In St. Louis" (MGM's) and their Life , With Father" film, which they 2 bought for $500,000 Willie De Khan, the society man, is now a < professional dancing teacher ' Overheard at the Milton Berie 2 broadcast: "Was that quip neces- 2 Sary?"
 The coIyum forwarded several z letters from worried bond buyers { who heard enemy planted rumors < that savings bonds wouldn't be re- , deemed in accordance with their ' terms The U. s. Treasury de- ' hunks the rumors with this state
 ment: "The rumors are absolutely ' without foundation. The U. s. Govt { has never defaulted in the payment < of its debts. Since the Congress
 
 2 meeting all obligations of the govt :. (when due) there can be no doubt < that its promise to pay its obliga- \ Eions (when due) will be carried ' put. Undoubtedly subversive activ- lty in this country is responsible
 for spreading of such miSinforma-
 ton. By making known the true < facts you counld do much to dis ! count the wholly unfounded rum ! ors.-D. w. Bell, Treasury Dept : Washington"
 The news that Donald Nelson ' would next marry the young widow ' Colbourne was tipped her first or . Dec. 18th, 1943, this way: We prom ' 1sed to omit his name until he | -s freed. Watch for the name of Mrs ( Paul Strashon's next groom. Shei . widow. He is one of America
 most famed leaders" Thei
 chuns are distressed over the divi \ sion rumorS concerning the Dear s1 Dandises Life had batch 0 < Damielle Darrieux fotos but used ' two in its current issue. Neithe Y shows her face - it's that marked ~i LAndon Laird. the critic 10 2 the Kansas City Star, will middle z aisle 1t soon with K. c. lovely z i. The M. Pendergasts (he's tn 2 Boston barrister) expect anothe 2 image. They lost their oldest son il : the Cocoanut Grove disaster . 2 J. A. Brunner (Chief of the Veter : ans of Foreign Wars) investigates ' our warning about subversive exec ' among the group and fired him.
 One Oe the playbOres is so wor ' ried about his inductioni via tn z work or fight bill becoming a lay
 he's engaged Q man to stay il ,AaarAnHa kn RaYnd him dailu ra