The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
MAN ABOUT TOWN


 Garbo has fun with a chap last
 tnitiard ~C", but AxeI Wenneh- Gren was her constant dinner com paniOn before he. suddenly flew away Howard Hughes sudden affection for AxeI involves an air line deal with several Scandinavian nations Not the biggest, but the Swankiest debutante party of the coming season. will be the dahnce the dOwager Vanderbilt will chuck at her 5th Ave. shack in honor of her grandOtter, COrnelia Davis, on Dec. 2Sth The Roger WeIleS have written finis to their merger. However. instead of the former Frances Hills being in Free no, Roger is there. Frances is the dghtr of the late editor of the Paris Herald The Mark Stevens image Is more than a fortnight tardy-Or Mark and Annelle can't add If U. s. Senator James Mead probes deep enough he will probably find that our govt has paid millions to an English insur- ance firm, which has never filed balance sheet! Mary PickfOrd and newcomer Constance Bowling. the little angels, are among the heaviest packers of "If the Shoe Fits" the next Leonard Sillman re- vuSical {. Pres. Truman, running true to form, selected another bunch of Missourians to win the pennant Buddy Clark, the barituner (he comes from Bahstin). is trying to commit suicide. He goes around saying that the Brook 1ynS and the Cards lost those last games because they're afraid to meet the Boston Red SOX!"
 The Topicker, scolding commen- tatorS and columnistS who predict | things, applauded his papers edi- torial titled: Scare Forecasting' Said MT. Strunsky: The text was the alarming forecast that the country was facing terrific meat | shortage The Topicker'S | complaint appeared on Sunday | Sept. 22nd 1946 Does he mean that telling the people Ga week in advance) that there would be no | meat isn't news? Fit to print? | Hmmmm?
 Did the Dock of Windsor pur- chase a manse on Ocean Blvd, Cor OnadO, Cal? The deal allegedIy was agent. The house, the bores add, was where the Duchess dwelIed with her 1st groom Helena Bliss of Gypsy Lady" is being drowned under showers of gifts from famed N. Y. architect Gen. Mark Clark's mother frOwned on his talk hng the post of Liquor Industry czar. The newspapers said he was offered S40.0O0 per annum. He was offered $75,0O0 Joe Louis chums say the champ will make $500, 900 during the next year as a director of a new soft drink firm Did govt agents recently seize the rec Ords of an oil company near Rocke- feller Center? Happened on Sept. 18th, diddenit? To probe trans actions involving the sale of avia- tlon gasoline The wife of 8 Mutual Network commentator, poor thing, goes around apologizing to friends for her husbands word poison.
 The Walter WinchelI Medal for the Most Swelegant Paragraph of The Week from SWifty,s I'm Tell ing You colin: Our nomination for the forgotten man, the Rev. Benny J. c. Benson, who has been mak- ing 8 mockery of prayer by put ting on public exhibitions at Bor- ough Hall (Brooklyn). The day he broke into the news, the Phils broke out in rash of base hits good for five runs and Dodger defeat Then on Thursday Pete Reiser broke a bone in his ankle. It would seem MT. Bensons activities were more of jinx than a help. We're not trying to be irreverent about this either, but we believe in taking our religion in church. not in carnival style"
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