The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-23
YOUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT
w alter WincheI
LINT FROM A BLUE SERGE SUIT

- L. . NJ. W. WeueS DGSt tI1Ck In
MS new show CAround tie Worldly is making
the critics eat their reviews In Born Yes
teroay cc-star Paul Douglas rips apart sever
a1 phone tones easy as pie. Not that Paul
couldn't without this trick, but if YOU bake a
phone book you can tear it in two without
much exertion. Carl Fisher Geo. Abbott
kin and mgr. of the Hudson Theatre) and his
wife, Mary Mason CnoW with Talu in "Private
Lives'o, want their fr,enos to know thew are
burying the Whole Thing this weekend . . A
Well-known midtown dress designer is expect
ed to contest Major BoWes will.
Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer
got his new post as chief of the World Bank
through Secy of State Byrnes. . Postmaster
General Robert flanagan Endorsed ex-Ambas-
sador Joseph P. Kennedy. . 1t was Byrnes'
first major victory. MI. Meyer, incidentally,
doesn't need your tears. Salary for his new
job will be $50, OOO-that's net. a.. That would
equal $50 900 in private industry-subiect to
taxes. . Nice work.
Undergraduates hear that Colonel and Cap
tain Durant were part of a big syndicate
which robbed Yurrop. d. Ed Rosenthal CHS
pappy WINS the Riverside Memorial Chapel up-
town. is bound for the Bikini atomb expert
ment. The only morticiaa on the trip. S. Bill
ingsley, who paid about $500, 900 for the bldg.
Ntt AAA~' hAS S1ob l. IOSdICuI u IL
ed down $700, 900 for it. Sammy Renick left
81, 100 in his Chatham Hotel room over a month
ago. The room was rented to several others.
The other ayem a maid found it in d drawer
under some paper. After il was traced to the
jockey, the honest maid was $1OO richer. .
Foolish-fa ctories bughouses) are overcroWded
all over the nation. To be admitted in any of
them you must have a reservation-and in
fluence.
Swedish industrialist Nazi-paD Axel Wenner-
Gren was put into a Mexico City hosp follow
ing a severe heart attack. .And little wonder
Mrs. Wenner-Gren woldn't step aside so
he could marry Otto Preminger's Marian, and
somebody sent a bullet Whizzing past Marian's
~head-which sent her home to Beverly Hills.
The whole OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES adven-
ture resulted in romance for everyone con-
~cerned-except, of course, Sonora Wenner-Gren
Otto Preminger according to unreliable
report is to wed Natalie Draper as soon as
all is settled. Sol Rosenblatt Counsel FOR
Wenner-Gren and. Marian p is hopeful Of
marrying Estrella BoiSSevain. He met her in
Mexico through Mrs. Preminger. Say, don't
this society stuff stink UP a colin, tho?
Gen. Eisenhower has a new style of answer
ing ~politicos who are trying to get him to give
some mint on whether he'd consider running
" L VII w 1NSIGO l1ShGl. 1S L
them to his wife, who says: Il don't like
politics.. While Uncle Sam sends vast hunks
of our fleet to Bikini for destruction - the
British continue to build up their navy. The
king without a throne leopold of Belgium
will figure in a story out Of Switzerland where
he plans to White-Wash his war record with
some sort OF defense. The National City
Bank has purchased a plot of land in Sac
Paulo CBraziD and paid more for it than they
o.;J Gov 4Ioir Wo1 C4rao+ hooIC1J y 4 r o. A
Boston firm recently bought a million and a
half surplus knives, forks and spoons from the
govt. Then they stamped them: Stolen from
the U. S. Army They sold like mad to war
vets VINO like to boast. The $3.50, 900 alienation
of affection action which Valtin Campbell, ex-
soldier, has brought against George P. Kimmel
(rich D. C. lawyer is the reason tWo Wash
ington execs have already gone on premature
vacations"
Orchids and Love mitt Kixxxxx to the Knox
vile (Tenn) Baptist Minister'S conference
For their description of the xxx as "seditious,
un-Christlan, an appeal to ignorance, manner
lean and an influence designed to disrupt all
social, economic and political life in this coun-
try"
Two ministers, however, opposed this reso-
luton. They were T. Wesley Hill and ]. Harold
Smith, both of whom recently paid a social
call on the Rankin Un-American Comm. In
Congress. . Match.
Paul Whiteman predicts the new song by
the Kennys C'Adventure'O will be the biggest
hit of tae year. There are eight new Broad
way colyumists including those on hobo publ
cations. The night spots gotta cuff EN- all, too.
Capitol grapevine insists Judge Vlnson took
the Big Bench job on the promise to step aside
in the '43 elections. He was promised that 50
would be his year. The us. Treasury wants
| legislation to out-fox corporations that overpay
their taxes in order to get the 6 percent interest
via the refund. "A big union will make head
lines for black deeds of its treasurer. Involves
three midtown places. Hep Washingtonians
see the fine eye-talian hand to the British
Tories III the monarchist riots. . .Ex-King I'm
berto is pjockeying for a State Dept. okay to
come over here.
They'll prob'ly deny it, but we hear the only
thing left unchanged after the Hiroshima
atombs fell was a safe which withstood the
terrific pressure. Made by a famed U. S.
safe maker. There are photos to support the
fact. The Government hasn't released the
info for the obvious reason that it might be
construed as evidence that there's material
impervious to the bombs effect. A list OF the
witnesses to Operation x-Roads would be of
immense interest to Americans almost as
shocking as the bomb itself. Just try to get
q L -f-----