The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Along Broadway
Bv WALTER.
MEMOs OF A GIRL FRIDAY

NICK. Inc O1Gk \C1CdhCu " o5oAii NAVN O-0T
ping $500, 900 in a long losing session., VIII go
to work managing a Nevada gaming spo- .
n VOL, believe the buzz that Hizzoner, the
Mavor. NAV not run again? They say ne
wants to settle on the coast Wnere ne mas
several offers from studios to be an exec. Z. .
IF columnist Tom Stokes is tempted, he may
transfer his zippy Washington memos. Ne
Vile Wallace is the name Of the Park Avenue
socialite who may wed into the Irving Berlin
family. Everyone is wondering ABOUT Gar
hos new interest. Can't use his name YET. but
the initials are G.. 5.
LaGuardia now regrets altering Sixth Ave
n,,e to .Avenue of the Americas" In a broad
cast he used the name twice and cloWheo
it. adding takes up too much radio tlme"...
The Larry Bests will be four next month. .
A r11mor around mortician circles is that jim
Farley has invested in a chain o. undertaAins
n1aces! The plan is to make it a coast-to-coast
business. .NBC announcers have a private
sffair. 1.-THE Feedback Club" All members
are "vice-presidents." They pay S. monthly
into a kitty, which goes for posles and oooosd
(and does away with hat-passing collectiohs'
when one marries or passes on. is me wen.
ding ring 1ngrid Hallen wears the tip OIL that
she is secretly Mrs. Robert (critic) Coleman?
Janis Paige of the films has Art Ford, the
disc-jockey, spinning like a Woody Herman
platter. Ask Mrs. Arthur Murray what nap,
pened at the editors office where she bounced
in. after a slick monthly mag's slzz!er ap-
peared? Oh, Mama Mia. Holiday gifts sent
to Germany must be marked gifts as a
post office regulation. In German gift means
''poison"!. .Didjez know that Pauline Potter
Cop designer at Hattie Carnegie's) is from
the social register? Yez didden?. WELL mere S
another: Baroness Grippenberg drau CT the
Finnish Minister to SWeden) has taken a JOB
as hostess at a hotel in the Bahamas
hear that Mrs. Toscanini is not returning from
Italy. The maestro dwells in Riverdale alone.
Poor Henry Lustig amt so poor as some
people think. Real %estaters tell you Mr.. Lustlg
turned down a profit OF a million on only
one Of his many properties. Inc one IN 'he
10th st. and Park Ave. sector. . Carol Lynne,
the skating star, will be Revnovocained after
her season fades. Hey, put this in the paper
for nice Meyer Chenkin who unscramb'es your
stuff via Western Union. His daughter Ger
trude, became a bride last week. Philip
Dorm says it's appropriate that the new Unit
ed Nations site is on F. D. Roosevelt Drive.
1T was FDR's drive that created the U.N."
=. Major l. M. Moss new book, lone Damned
Island After Another" got good notices. He
saws all proceeds will go to the Air Forces
Relief Society. The Phillips H. Lords are
Sing. A certain colyumist we know may
get richer endorsing a line OF bras.
Oh, yes, the $1,000 check from that radio
comedian under no circumstances must be
mentioned. l mean his name. . l think you
should make it clear to all donors) mat the
money is not only to be used to pay all Dllls.
Oh, yes, the $1,000 check from that radio
comedian under no circumstances mus be
mentioned. 1 mean his name. I think you
should make it clear Ito all donors) that the
money is not ony to be used to pay all Dlns
for newspaper folk who can't afford IL but
will mainly 60 to cancer research. The wing
for Mr.. Runyon will not take much ana Will
be decided on by the committee. The Amerl-
can Cancer Society (and execs at Memorial
HospitaD are very pleased You shoulo see
some of the data they've sent. Did you have
any idea that II million Americans will die
of cancer. If you ask people: How many
| families do you think are hit by it," the
invariably reply: "Oh, about one in ten! r..
The Fact is frightening. It's one out OF ever
two!. 1t could be my family or yours
imagine!
Herbert Bayard Swope and Jerry Brady ad-
wise that January 14th at TROPICAL Park (Mi-
amD will include a special race, The Runyon
Memorial Purse" Also at Hialeah later. The
jockeys, trainers, ct al, l think, also turn
over theirs. What's this about you going to
Rockingham and tracks all over the naron?
Jerry Brady fels sure all will be glad to
help, not only once, but make it an annual
event. l think that's wonderful. The punches
of ones, lives and tens are now on deposit at
Irving Trust, 48th st. If Damon could only
know he was not the Loser, but the Victor.
I assumed you saw that fellows piece in
which he said he never heard OF "a genuine
newspaperman carrying a gat'. . wen,
what's his : name, who covers headquarters
(and who once sent us all that firemen's
slang) totes the biggest AS 1 ever saw. He's
ben with the same paper for decades.
When Kay and I get some time We'll dig w
the files for the others Gncluding editors, who
carry them on the hip or in their desks, which
you often Photographed about under "Newspa-
perman Stuff"
Lehman's being offered the post on the
World Bank vacated by Eugene Meyer.
Mae West is doing a series of recordings
titled: Bedtime Stories" Thassall!. L hope
those many complainers Gurriers) about the
several fur items (prices diving) are conv.nc-
ed by now. They screamed we were positively
those many complainers furriers) about the
several fur items (prices diving) are conv1nc-
ed by now. They screamed we were positively
wrong, etc. Dopes. Col. Matt VIM was at
: the Stork recently. He's "a, very gay and chip
per. Said he's had Y Derbies at churchill
Downs and makes a million bux out OF each. :.
Two ayem g~azettes standard size) tilt a nick
ell verv soon. Amazing stor ymaking the
mag rounds of a profile-writer who went ber-
serk during the war, was hospitalized, and
finally deported to Hollywood where insanity
;en,t ,otineah1e Merry CrOSSley and a HOOP