The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-30
YOUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT
Walter Winchen
MAN ABOUT TOWN

PAeSS liza anu INdSQa haTl Oh the SnOW-ShOpS
are a Daily Double . Mrs. Joseph Medil Pat
terson <the publishers widow may donate the
Ossining estate and home to Fordham Univ.
and dwell on the estate in a small cottage.
Coasters hear that MGMiIionaire L. B, Mayer
and his estranged wife will wind it Upland
that he will marry lovely Mrs. Danny Banker,
the widow i. Estelle Taylor and John Carroll
SO here it is. .Caulitlower Alley says Billy
Conn's On the level about quitting and has
applied for a referees license. . Conn, But Not
Forgotten.
Look cut for James Sauter Of Radio Row.
He catches you off guard with this: by July
1st," he begins, 'the new Sec'y of the U. S.
Treasury will issue an order stopping the print
ing of all 81 bills!"
After your eyebrows come back and you
say: "Why?'
He says: What good are they?"
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford have mend
ed their long time mad. THE Calcutta on
the U. S. Open golf championship was over
$1OO, 600. The VIM. Steigs Che draws the pop
ular Small Fry and Lonely Ones') are
Mom-and-P Optimistic. Is Mrs. Craig W. Whit
ney, now out West for her freedom, next mar
rying Paul Mcnamara of the Selznick exec
staff. Sol Rosenblatt, itemed as being coun-
sci for Axel Wenner-Gren (for his Mexican
melting), is Mrs. Otto Preminger's, rumored
Wenner-Gren's next. RoSelblatt was never his
lawyer. The Countess Demun resigned Gas
a newspapers fashion edltcr) in a tizzy. Such
at the Zanuck Zoo Aug. 5th. When Spike
Jones opens at the Strand July 5th, his band
will feature a 6 It. 6 inch Indian, whose job'll
be to yell "Chloe!" at o0d moments.
The Westinghouse waggers John L.. Lewis
next headlines are expected from his incur
sion into territory controlled by Dubinsky's I'M
ions. Lewis will try to organize the bra work
ers. The irony is this: Dubinsky was Lewis
Highlander in forming the CLIO, which both
quit. He supported Lewis in the recent coal
strike, too. q. CLIO chief Murray has promised
JAW prexy Reuther full support. Because
Of the time element in chemistry Uncle Sam
will lap the field by at least 3 months in any
Atomb race. The inner-circlers hear that the
Bikina Bomb will be dropped on July II.
Russian correspondent simonev, visiting the
U. S., met George o. Welles and was asked
by the star: Are you writing another book?'
. this year." seriously said the Com
munist from Moscow. 1T would all GO for
taxes!'. Bolton Mallcry's bride is the daugh-
ter Of the ex-finance minister Of Mexico.
This one is worth money. Next time you watch
television broadcasts don sun-specs. Improves
liC pANttt4O " CAi NA1S IC 61oAS' 80" ~
Inns hit song In the Norman show (Doin'
What Comes Natcherly') is banned from the
major networks. Local stations play it. .
Pieter de Witt and Betty Middleton OF the
Goth Century-Fox staff here wed this week .
Add swank: The son Of author Nancy C'Mana-
tee') Bruff made Who's Who when he was
3 days young.
Before you know It you will forget the Atomb
and start Cabling about the 1onosphere. .
Scientists are sending rockets up there near
the same New Mexico spot where the Atombs
were tested. The Ionosphere lies Just above
the Shakespeare. One scientist has limited
that if a nation can crack the IonoSphere
(above any other nation( the ~latter's popula-
ton can be blotted out in a split second. If
you don't believe this, then quiz the War and
Navy Departments. . Nest worried man is
S. Billingsley. His reaction was: DO you think
these damn bombs will affect the Stork Club?'
James Montgomery T1agg's book, "Roses
and Buckshot," due in the Fall. is why the in
telligeptsia Of the art world are going around
with that worried look. Anna Volkova (bal-
lerina with the original Ballet Russo was
married in Sydney, Australia, to Major James
Barnes. He popped the question by cable when
she was hoofing in S. America. It's a girl
doll at the French Hosp tor the Don Burkes
of the H. Luce factory. Mamma is the former
Cathleen ConnorS, daughter or a coast OIL mag
nate. Bicycles in the distilling industry were
summoned to Washington the other day. Some
thing orewing-and that's not a joke, bub.
Don't walk the dark streets. Cliff "Ukulele
Ike Edwards, s~trolling west on 53rd, was held
up by two stickups, who hid in parked cars
in front of the Rehearsal Club-tepeed by
theatrical ladies. The wife of a rich mid
town man arrived in Reno the day he died.
Add letters refused for publication by a New
York paper: Il say bring all those poor people
(unwanted by the BRUSH in Palestine) to
Americal II there should be just one Bernard
Baruch in the lot, we'd be getting a tremen-
dous bargain. Did Mr.. Bevintolerance never
hear OF Britain's great Dlsraeli? Does he not
know that if it weren't for the magnificent
fighting spirit of our own Nathan Strauss, that
throughout the world there are many hun
dreds of thousands who would not have lived
after their fifth birthday? Well. look it up, Mr..
Bevin. then go hide in shame!-John Connery,
the Catholic Actors Guild, Hotel Aston, 45th
st. and Broadway
Cops are waiting for a kerrickter who crash
ed Mrs. Chuchu Martinez's room at the hosp
(Where she just had her baby to return. He
told her he fell in love with her pictures in the
papers. .Gagwriter Hal Block was crowned
King Watermelon at the Madison Long
champs. Quite a scene A photo mag calls
Huntington Hartford, III. the president of the
A. & P Tea Co., which he amt. The president
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