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Show IS!,!! Man About Town: The ex-convict whose plot to kidnap kid-nap Betty Grable was interrupted is last-named Williams. She still has a guard, and her father and husband tote gats. . . . The O.D.T. will order all dining cars removed from choo-: choo-: choos traveling less than 350 miles. ... The Newspaper Guild will in-vade in-vade the radio field (to organize it) next Summer. The colyum forwarded several letters let-ters from worried bond buyers who j heard enemy-planted rumors that savings bonds wouldn't be redeemed I in accordance with their terms. . . . , The U. S. Treasury debunks the rumors with this statement: "The : rumors are absolutely without foun-: foun-: dation. The U. S. Gov't has never j defaulted in the payment of its j debts. Since the Congress has am-I am-I pie power to provide for meeting j all obligations of the gov't (when ! due) there can be no doubt that its ( promise to pay its obligations (when I due) will be carried out. Undoubt-, Undoubt-, edly subversive activity in this country coun-try is responsible for spreading of ! such misinformation. By making known the true facts ysu could do i much to discount the wholly unfounded unfound-ed rumors. D. W. Bell. Treasury Dep't, Washington." The news that Donald Nelson would marry the young widow Col-bourne Col-bourne was tipped here first on December De-cember 13, 1943, this way: "We promise to omit the name until he is freed. Watch for the name of Mrs. Paul Strashon's next groom. She'l a widow. He is one of America's Amer-ica's most famed leaders." . . J. A. Brunner (Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) investigated our warning about a subversive exec, among the group and fired him. One of the playbores is so worried wor-ried about his induction via the work or fight bill's becoming a law he's en- j gaged a man to stay in Washington 1 to send him daily reports on its progress. prog-ress. . . . Another of the same set i (afraid of losing his draft-proof sta- I tus if seen in public with his dolls) stays home, which is practically a night club. . . . Add lucky timing: "They Told Me," by Leonard Lyons in This Week. Deals with the war's top men and their confabs. . . . One of the better-known socialice made a terrific odor at Penn Station the other ayem when she found she couldn't buy two compartments to Florida plus three for her servants! The nation's No. 1 sin town is Washington. Ever since the FBI lost that "black spook" case the joynts are jumpin'. . . . How Tempus Fugits Dep't: Davey Lee, who sat on A. Jolson's lap in "Sonny Boy," is now a pilot in the S. Pacific for Uncle Samson. . . . T. Dorsey's booking book-ing at the 400 on Feb. 16th will guar- antee him $6,000 per week against a percentage. A record, we think, for a nitery. ... A WAC private sta tinned at Santa Monica is really named Pearl Harbor. Your Broadway and Mine: Faces About Town: Victor Moore, the beloved comedian, moving out ! of an exclusive Park Avenue place (back to the Broadway hotel he lived in during his vaudeville days) because be-cause he was "so uncomfortable." . . . J. J. Shubert telling comedienne Sue Ryan (the Shuberts' most valu able property since "Blossom Time") to wear her rubbers outdoors. out-doors. . . . J. P. Marquand, co-parent co-parent of the hit show, "The Late George Apley," readying to cover the Pacific arena soon. . . Music czar Petrillo, who will try to invade the newsreel music field, alleging news-reels news-reels shouldn't use canned music, etc. . . . Henry Luce, the Mag-nate, better known as Father Time. . . Evelyn Nesbit, once the toast of the town, preferring to dine alone at Duffy's Tavern. Manhattan Murals: The photo of Fred Allen taken about 20 vears ain i in checked derby and tight trousers i in the window of a 47th Street pho-togger. pho-togger. . . . The icicles on the nude statues in the Museum of Modern Art Gardens. Very comical. . . The pup wearing military apparel. . . . The French restaurant, "L'Apres Midi," at 48th near 8th where the patrons get up and entertain. . . The Navy flier in the Cub Room slaying the celebs with this one. He displays a pack of Camels and says: "If you were out on this desert where would you sleep?" . . . The sucker looks and looks and eventually eventu-ally says: "I'd sleep near the pyramids pyra-mids or under that palm tree." . to which the snapper is: "I wouldn't. I'd just go around the corner (turning (turn-ing the pack) and sleep in one of these hotels!" Princess Anastasia of Greece I (King Peter's mother-in-law) is now wearing the pants in the Yugoslav I royal tribe She is blamed for the recent crisis. . . . Mussolini, our-na Uon'l detectives learn, is squawk-tag squawk-tag that his Nazi friends not only 1 robbed everyone else in Italy but nn took all of his personal posses sions. . . . Swiss scribes believe Gen'l Guderian will be replaced as Nazi Eastern commander. Because of his terrific argument with Hitler, who fought against the big withdrawals. with-drawals. I |