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Show ftjH M JV0 York Ringside: One of us wondered how the Louis-Conn Louis-Conn RKO tight films would get over since there wasn't a real blow struck In Round One and not much fighting In the following rounds until un-til the finish. "The movies will be awful dull." said a fellow. "They'd look a lot better," said a wag, "with Lana Turner!" Grade Allen, the fight expert of Burns Sc Allen, was among the Working Press section in Row A. . When the 6th round ended, she iio-hum'd: "Only nine more rounds to go!" . . . Sherman Billingsley was the guest of Prof. Runyon at the ringside. The Stork man was thrilled about getting a "free" seat. He bought $1,000 worth of $100 ducats, which he gave to friends. After round two (in which Conn irked the champ with some fancy hoop-la) Louis gave Conn the most refrigerated glare since Sonja Henie Iced Dan Topping. . . . When Income In-come Tax Collector Nunan met heavy taxpayer Ann Sheridan, she groaned: "Hullo, boss." ... As the gambling wiseacres put It: "Never bet against a champion until he loses." Admiral Halsey was Irked over an editorial in a mid-western paper, i which rapped his former Comdr., Harold Stassen. . . . The editorialist editorial-ist inaccurately stated that Stassen "hid behind Halsey's skirts." "That's the damndest tommyrot I ever heard of," barked the Admiral. "It was Just the other way 'round! I was far behind Stassen's ship when the Japs dropped bombs on it killing 75 of Stassen's crew!" Gen. Eisenhower has a new style of answering politicos who are trying try-ing to get him to give some hint on whether he'd consider running for President on the Repub ticket. He refers them to his wife, who says: "I don't like politics." . . . While Uncle Sam sends vast hunks of our fleet to Bikini for destruction the British Brit-ish continue to build up their navy. . . . The king without a throne (Leopold (Leo-pold of Belgium) will figure In a story out of Switzerland where he plans to white-wash his war record with some sort of defense. . . . The National City Bank has purchased a plot of land in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and paid more for it than they paid for their Wall Street headquarters. ... A Boston firm recently bought a million and a half surplus knives, forks and spoons from the gov't. Then they stamped them: "Stolen from the U. S. Army." They sold like mad to war vets who like to boast. A group of Soviet engineers have ' arrived in the U. S. "to study public , works systems," under the tutelage of the Federal Works Agency. . . . They'll visit Chi, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. They are "interested" in bridges, streets and highways. ... Is dot zoh? . . . If the Army-Navy merger goes through (which insiders believe it won't), Stuart Symington will be Secy of Nat'l Defense . . . Lots of big shots are reported loaded with Mexican gold. They keep it to circumvent the ruling about possessing posses-sing American gold coins. . . . You'd be amazed at the number of big-shot big-shot American writers and others who pay no taxes by living in Cuba and continue selling pieces up here. And for good reason, too. Authors Au-thors often use four years to write a book, and if it's any good, it is a best-seller. Then they are taxed heavily the year they are paid-not paid-not the four years devoted to doing the work. Silhouettes About Town: Admiral Halsey, in mufti, at the Stork with his daughter. Mrs. Lee Spruance. confirming that it is pronounced Hirrah-shim-mah not Hiro-shee-mer. ... When we reported that months ago a Navy lad "corrected." i Youthful Lord Lascelles (King Geo's nevview), one of England's greatest catches," lunching unrecognized at the Colony. . . Gen. Hap Arnold In a tweed get-up at the same spot. - Jimmy McLarnin, who furious-v furious-v fought Tony Canzoneri many times at the Garden, embracing him a Toots' , . D. Runyon shopping at Hanson s drug store unrecognized by some of the kerrickters he got nch writing about. . . . Prof. Albert Einste.n. New York's top answer to England s Bevingrate. . . Dudley Digges, the first to be signed for Eugene 0'Ne,I,'s "Ice Man Com- BKO-f y , ' Jacques Goldstyne. RKO s good-will man-about-town, in tSSS"" Ingrid Bergman' J Sinatra probably was the heav- parts pZ the fiht these parts. Put a skyscraper bundle on in hi, V u WclIes' best tr worK'rr r'Around world ) is making the critics eat heir reviews . . . ln -Born Yes -day" co.star Pau, Ve apart several phone tomes easy as |