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Show WALTER WINCHELL . ' . : . Rumors About Van Johnson Held Silly i get that touch In U dl (out front again or they'll, be doMd a la burleek theater. General cleanup campaign coming up . The Gary Coopar of Mexico (Pedro Infanta), bow la person at tha Puarto Rico thaatar, gets a higher guarantee salary thaa any movie atar oa BSray. J. PiMnggio'a 1100.000 eon tract - ' -' -.- ' V ' - ! for 1W got him 137 14 par ttma at bat. baaed on hla Xt2 appear' aneaa at the plate. Got $1063.87 for each of hia M hlU . t . Lena Turaar will appear vary vohipchea in her next, "A Life of Her Own." Tha outfit negotiating with Tel Wma (of tba Red Sox) for hi own ' TT program earl "he' easy to handle. Bean town scribe kindly -note. any moment . . Tha Dept of LiceneM has warned certain B1 way movie theateri (cheaplee) not to Mrs. Oeerge S, rattoa (widow of the famed general) can wed another an-other army officer if aha wishes .. . In-laws insist the rumors about the Van Johnsons are see lee . . . Coasters argue that Ginger Rogers' Rog-ers' estranged groom Jack Brigga Is stuck on no other femme but Revs Fredrick (Robert Mitchum'a Girl Friday) at RICO ... The Alexander . Klrklands - retake didn't take . . . Ralph Bellamy's ax-wife. Alice, is very ill at LaRoy . . . Tuletlde toy sales wilt amount (they say) to about (300 million at Burrs' prices ... All those Items about Janet Leigh (about to middle-aisle with A. Losw Jr.) are veddy lntristtng, but how about Stanley Reamea, - to whom she happens to be hitched ? At tha Greets mansion reception for Pres. Truman two tables were set up, one for dignitaries the other for political hacks. Some doap put Bernard Baruch next to "Gen. H. Vaughan -at guess-whlch-table? , . . Truman's trump card in hla fight with the ad- mlrals will be Forrestal's personal diary . . . Why soma colvumtat can't be reconciled to Franca, Peron and Co. This is how low politics haa fallen: . Antl-Fasclst Russia haa signed a trade deal with anti-Communist Spalnl . . . Britain' Labor party delegate to the U. N. (Hector McNeill) ts spending most of hi time with tha swanky North Shore (L. L) high-take-poker-end-golf set . American and Russian weather bureau bu-reau are working in perfect harmony, har-mony, in spits of tha Cold War ... V. P. Bark ley 's bride-to-be can be called V. P. too. Very Pretty. Movie vlllala Geo. Macready Is a gentle lamb so far as Barbara O'Neill's concerned . . . C B Scrip-ter" Scrip-ter" Wm. K. Clark haa a S-acter titled The Daughter." It' about Mary Todd Lincoln . . . The F. Rooney (he'a in tht Collier') expect their baby In April. Mr. Rooney is Helen Hardy (Maurice Evans Girl Friday) . . . The veddy social J. K. Ewlng, Srd, and Char-lote Char-lote Ames will set the data |