The daily record., 1952-03-10
Walter
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New
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WOoIOi - OSOOI oid any AhCo LIZA
raine Thomas, as who wouldn't?
!. The, lovely. who won mink on
The Big Pay-Off'' is Jean Cam
bron, Cleveland model and TV
aspirant She wore a blazer on that
finger, but she wouldn't chirp j..
Tchk, tchkl Natalie Roberts. of the
screen, amazed Seymour Nebenzal
when she ruled: mo new contract
containing morals clause!"
THE Defense Dept, in stamping
its okay on Sound Off, appended
a note that is new to me as gov
ernment policy. In effect, it stated
that merry, cheerful stories of SER
vice life are far more welcome and
far more helpful than CORY, melo-
dramatic tales of action set in war;
that past heroics are not inspira-
tional for recruiting and mental
preparation of rockies, whereas the
light approach is an aid to what
the forces call psychological con-
ditioning" for service.
Eddie Cantor wants me to believe
that Col. Henry c. Kaplan, top exec
of Welch's Wine, for which Eddie
is touring. has had special ink
blended for his signature on check
and correspondence, the "exact
shade of his product" I know Eddie
wouldn't deceive an old friend. But
he didn't say positively
Beppy Bollini, who manages his
fathers art gallery in Florence, is
here with his ex-N. Y. model wife,
Pat Codd Del Webb, part owner
of the champion Yankees, hit ma
tural gas on his real estate near
Texarkana The garment indus
try, which went all out for Rudy
HALEY, would give Mayor Impellit-
teri fabulous job if he would take
it and thus automatically make
HALEY the mayor.
The Bath and Turf, in Atlantic
City, which had the high-class
gambling casino there during the
reign of Enoch (Nucky) Johnson,
after undergoing varied vicissitudes,
has been sold to Alfred Jackson, a
local restaurateur, who will feature
edibles and potables, but no six
sided bouncing banditti johnson
is old but almost himself again, af-
ter his stretch in Leayenworth. He
was the only top political boss put
away under the New-Fair Deal
But Nucky is a Republican.
Kirk Douglas is the first beau-
friend seen with Gene Tierney since
she shed Oleg Cassini Bill Keeg-
an, the lawyer, inherited castle
in Ireland But he won't claim it
the upkeep is that high Michael
Wilding's faded films are being re-
susicitated along 42dl St., and his
name is in lights, since he wed the
Taylor girl Former Boston Braves
pitcher Ted Barrett is now a star
red singer in the San Souci night
club, Havana Marilyn Montoe's
steadiest caller is Claude Terrail
The bobby-soxers' undergoing is still
effective. Aldo Ray, to be starred for
the first time in "The Marrying
Kind" arrived at LaGuardia Field
unannounced. Yet crowd of young
autograph chiselers was there,
shrieking and tearing the buttons
off his coat
Enrol Flynn will be the top fig
ure in Nassau next week, when he
arrives there to prosecute his suit
against Duncan McMartin, the
Canadian millionaire, for assault
Errol's bosom buddy, John Perona,
is flying from Miami to hold the
dashing hero's hand during the or
deal.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., who is
lecturing right now in the North
west. writes me: II am not a young
Lothario I am a middle-aged
man with white hair and a fat
tunrny If people came to see me
because of my name, why would
they repeat year after year? What
they want is first-hand information
=. Some of the predictions 1 have
made in the past have happened
I bet I can tell you more about the
next presidential election than you
could tell me-" You win, Nell. Go
on, tell me.
Dorothy Lamosir ran across the
room and threw her photogenic
arms dramatically around a digni-
fied-looking, aging gent of definite
distinction, as he entered El Bor-
rscho. / though he looked familiar.
And when he greeted me recog-
nized him He is William B. Mann,
a sedate stockbroker :. / knew him
as Billy Mann. an entertainer in
an &. 45th St. speakessy nightclnb
when he was the sippy ring-leader
of the Yacht Club Boys, and, later.
at the. old, Norrnandie Club, in the
Navarro Hotel, where Dotty was
the s75-a-week opening act OF the
floorshow.
Mid-March Musing: You get out
of life Just what you put into 1t
Less Taxes.