The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-24
The American Labor Party (which

The American Labor Party (which is neither American, Labor nor 6 Party, but a Red-dominated politi- cal conglomeration invented by Vito Marcantonio to keep himself in Congress and in power) is stub- bornly against former Gov Herbert Lehman to run for U. $. Senator It wants Fiorello LaGuardia .
 LaGuardia supported Marcantonio in his last race, saying Vito and I went to the same school" They seem to have learned the same sort of lessons, too The Democrats are afraid to cross up the ALP bunch. They pushed Sen. Mead to the forefront for the gubernatorial nomination at beheSt of Marcan- tonio's mugWrlmps Gov. Dewey will beat Mead a mile . Lehman might have some chance and would surely run ahead of the ticket. LaGuardia would be massacred up- state and downstate, and the first to let go the machine-gun would be the regular Democrats, who have to behave in conference" these days, but who still have the Aus tralian ballot privilege on election day.
 On to pleasanter subjects: Mar guerVe Chapman and Los Angeles lawyer Bentley Ryan, described by her agent as "aah-condittoned" .... Herbert Marshall, Boots Mallory and his ex Edna Best tee-hee- some threesome Joanne Mel nicker, mag ed. and Mike Hindlin of Warmers, will wed Sept. 15.... Wilma Kurer, Viennese refugee ac- tress who became well known here, married Richard Barron in Chicago, they'll try a Lunt-Fontanne in "Blithe Spirit" around the summer spots. opening in Hampstead next week Collette Lyons, of Show Boat" at Lum Fong's with adman Louis Ozanne Nancy Graham, of the Wivel, with Dave Harbin, the singer And Stubby Kaye, 300-lb. USO comedian, they want me to tell you, is playing fat part with Sonia Baldwin. the Wave, who weighed 89 after she got soaking wet in yest'days deluge.
 Nate Spingold, vice president of Columbia Pictures, isn't retiring. re- signing or going with another out fit. His contract carries him into '48. This is published after a care full check of reports from half-a- dozen sources that he's making a change -. Nate wouldn't hoodwink me I put him in the news paper business-met him on a story in which he was the principal. He wanted to be reporter I fixed It .. I want to be 8 million aire ;. Wish he'd fix it.
 Unofficial, but factual-the days Of numbers of the men who worked on the atomic bomb projects are numbered. They're dio-activity- infected James E. Branigan, known to use all so long and well when he was in charge of the Broadway Squad of cops and dicks during the Prohibition picnic, sits behind dignified Madison Avenue desk now, an executive of the Be- Ian Detective Agency headed by ex-Police CommisSi ioner James s. Bolan =. :. Jim Branigan and I did some renainscing yesterday at the Manhattan Club What stopped our nlerrlment was the realization of how many of the boys and babes we knew then are gone We could still hear their laughter, see the highlights in their eyes, feel their warm handSl
 Love in bloom-Joan Gentry, s. Billingsleys Stork Club lark, has Harry Gushing " the bankers boy, hummlng in tune Mae Oleson, trans-seas plane stewardess (first femme on Guadalcanal as an Army nurse) and Jim Winchester. flight flack, up in the air together Jerry Wayne Cat Loew's State) and Dolores Gray (the Tt" in Are You With It') buhlaging .. John Sutton, British thespian, and Bobbe tex- Jimmy Fidler, Julytem Anna Winan, socialite daughter of producer Dwight Deere w., and Dick Sinclair. just turned loose by Joan La Roche, twoing the town Lawrence Tibbett, Jr., at Ar mando's with cover-gal Connie Ford, who's gone dramatic in the stocks in the sticks.
 Commander LaMarr. onetime aide to Nimitz, now big brass on the USS Appalachian. which took some of the newsmen to Bikini, corresponds with the boys. With one accord, they salute him-"Dear Hedy!" The Treasury men are up to their big smellers in the fabu- 1ous cafe-concessions business. The Lustig taX-evasion testimony showed how vulnerable it is if cheaters want to chisel. The turnover in tips (not including walters, captains and those competed with cafes other than through accessory donations) Is estimated at S20,000 a dayl
 The average honest nightclub draUS abOlIt S00 O00 year op itc