Evening star., 1961-01-24
Buck Well Passed

NEW YORK. - President
Kennedy's converting Of his In
vestments into Government
bonds makes this story rele-
want: Eleanef Roosevelt once
was beneficiary Of q fund whose
trustee was . distant cousin,
George E. Roosevelt. jr. When
the trust expired. the trustees
wrote to President Roosevelt
for suggestions about invest
ing the funds. FDR replied:
You're the trustee. 80 it's your
worry" :. The trustee wrote
to the President: "I've invested
the funds In o. 8. Government
bonds: now you're the trustee
and it's your worry"
Lew Chesler. the Canadian
industrialist and horse racer,
bought q box for the Inaugural
Gala. Jack z. Leonard said: /:
That's the first time Chester
ever sat in Q box without q
horse going BY" >. Kyle Rote,
the Giants star. viii write q
book on football for Macmil-
lan's. Columbia University
wrote to the Yankees. thank
ing the club for stressing How
ard kits scholastic standing
In announcing the signing Of
the young bonus pitcher.
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Commodore James Pioneer,
Canada's senior commanding
officer afloat In the Atlantic,
Il expected to attend the spe-
cial screening Of Tony Curtis
film, THE Great Imposter. /"
This Ii the store Of Ferdinand
Demara, jr., who In one Of his
many masquerades successfully
posed as Q dentist and actually
removed one Of PIONEERS teeth.
When Vivien Leigh starred
In the film anna Karenia, /"
one scene showed her bouncing
a boy on her knee. The boy,
Jeremy Spenser. now appears
with Miss Leigh in "The Ro-
man Spring Of Mrs. Stone
in q mad seduction scene
Ralph Bunche bought his first
top hat for the Inaugural /. b.
DsrPyl Zanuck was startled
last week when his william
Faulkner film, Sanctuary. !"
received o production code seal,
although he managed to retain
It's adult" theme.
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One Of Tallulah Bankhead's
friends is Eddie George, who
had risen to feature billing on
Broadway before he decided to
become q stage manager. Miss
Bankhead asked him why he'd
given up acting, and he said
In every play there's q hero
and q heel" "And you al
ways played the heel?" Tallu-
lah asked mo" said
George. THE heels friend"
In honor Of Adolph Green's
first baby, Leonard Bernstein
presented them with q novel
gift--he wrote o 2S.page COM
position for two pianos, en-
titled '1ridal Suite. Ed
yabI0nsld's biography Of Harold
Arlens Happy With the Blues, /"
viii be out on February IS. the
composers birthday Bob
Hope ID expected to win an
Oscar nomination for Facts OF
Life" Hope said Of JFK: "Hei
had trouble moving from
lGeorgetown to the White
House: that Jimmy Hoffa never
forgets.
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Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
had an inaugural Gala sketch
written for them by Goodman
Ace, the TV scriptwriter. One
Of Aces scenes. however, was
cut. Curtis was to refer to the
glorious 40 states. and Miss
Leigh was to correct him: mot
40. It's 50. Haven't you heard
about Hawaii and Alaska ?" ..
Eyes. but it's 49," Curtis re-
plies. You're counting Missis-
sippi."
Walter Lippmann, Marquis
Childs and Dorothy Fosdick
will serve as q board of spon-
sors for the new Contemporary
Affairs Society, advising on lit
erary projects. etc. Mickey
Mantle said the other day that
when he was 18 he sold, for $50,
the lifetime rights for the use
Of his name on q baseball bat.
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