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: H i f t | « Walter + i being offered at ¥ i \ Fairbanks’ widder (Lady ‘Aabley- \ Stanley) and Hutton’s used- \ ] to be “Bob Byfeeney) have re- \ | sumed dates. ./The V. Sardi, Irs, \ | were unwo} at Las Vegas.. They soy JN he (cleaned ouf Again after droppin, $500,000 in a Jong Josing session}, will go to work managing a Ne- ‘vada gaming spot...Do you be- lieve the buzz that Hizzoner, the Mayor, may not run again? They say be wants to settle on the coast ‘where be hes several of- fers from studios to be an exec... Naville Wallace is the name of the Park Avenue sodalite who may wed into the Irving Berlin fanfily,..Everyoue is wondering about Garbo's new interest. Can't use his name yet. : ‘La Guardia now regrets alter- ing Sixth Avenue to “Avenue of the Americas.” In a broadcast he used the name twice and clowned it, adding “takes up too much radio time”...The Larry Bests will be four next month... A rumor around mortician c cles is that Jim Farley has in- vested in = chain of undertaking places! The plan is to make it 2 coast-to-coast business...NBC announcers: have a private af- fair, “The Feedback Club.” All ‘members are “vice-presidents.” They pay $5 monthly into a kitty, which goes for posies and doo- dads (and does away with hat- passing collections) when one marries or passes on..-Is ti wedding ring Ingrid Hallen wears the tip off that she is secretly Mrs. Robert (critic) Coleman? Janis Paige of the films has Art Ford the disc-jockey, spin- ning like a Woody Herman platter ...Ask Mrs. Arthur Murray what happened at the editor's office where sbe bounced in, after @ stick monthly mag's sizzler ap- peared? Oh, Mama Mia!..,Holi- day gifts sent to Germany must be marked “gifts” as a post of: Germen “gift” Didjez_ know that Pauline F {iop design- er at Hattle Carnegie’s) {s from the social register? Yez_didden? ...Well, here's another: Baroness Grippenberg (frau of the Finnish minister to Sweden) has taken a job as hostess at a hotel in the Bahamas.,.I hear that Mra, Tos- canint is not returning from Ttaly. The maestro dwells in Riverdale alone. FUN AR ene eee Poor Henry Lustig ain't 80 poor as some people think Real estatera. tell you Mr. Lustig turned down a profit of a mil- Tion on only one of his many seanertioe ‘The one in the 40th : I LOS ANGELES HERALD & Winchell weneerecit rie * | (ae 2 sput this in the paper for tj ft. and Park Ave. sector... Hey, ‘Meyer Chenkin who unscrein! your stuff via Western Union. His ‘daughter Gertrude became & pride last week...Philip ‘Dorn ‘says it’s appropriate that the new United Nations site.ts on F. D. Roosevelt drive. “It was FDR’ ‘rive that created the U. N.” Major I. M. Moss’ new book, “One Damned Isiand After Another,” got good notices, He says all proceeds will go to the Air Forces Relief Society...The Phillips H. ‘Lords are ¥ing...A certain colyumist we know may get ticher endorsing a line of bras, Herbert Bayard Swope and Jerry Brady advise that Janu- ‘ary Jéth at Tropical Park (Mi- ami) will include a special race, “The Runyon Memorial Purs Also at Hialeah later. The jock- ‘eys, trainers, et al, I think, also turn over theirs...What's this about you going to Rockingham ‘ang tracks all-over the nation? Jerry Brady feels sure all will be glad to help, not only once, but make it an annual event. I think that’s wonderful. The bunches of ones, fives and tens are now on deposit at Irving Trust, 48th af. If Da: ‘could only know he wes not the Loser, only know he ‘but the Victor. “Tassumed you ssw that fellow's piste, in, mplen be sald he never ard of “a genuine newspaper- man .cerrying # get”...Well, what's-his-name, who covers Headquarters (and who once eent us all that firemen's slang) totes the biggest 45 I ever saw. He's been with the same paper for decades...When Kay and I ‘get some time we'll dig up the files for the others (including editors) who carry them on the hip or in their desks, which you, often paragraphed about under “News- paperman Stuff.” Lehman's being offered the post on the World Bank vacated by Eugene Meyer...Mae West is doing a series recordings titled: “Bedtime Stories.” Thass- all!...1 hope those many com- plainers (furriers) about the sev- era) fur itema (prices diving) are convinced by now, They screamed we were positively wrong, etc. «Col, Matt Winn was at the Stork recently. He's 84, very gay and chipper, Said he's had 72 Derbies at Churchill Downs and makes a million bur et each...amazing story makin; mag rounds of « profile-w who went berserk du: the: was hospitalized, and finally “ported to Hollywood where fanity isn't i _ Crossiey and —Your Girl Friday.