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Show Man About Town Lia Yutang is furious at his daughter's planned merger. H ordered her to return to the U. S. from Paris . . . Londoners hear Pamela Churchill wants to be converted con-verted to Catholicism . . . That was Marlene Dietrich who legged off in a buff on 5th Avenoo (the other j yem), leaving I. S. Patcevitch with a taxi on his bands . . . The Win-throp Win-throp Gardiners hold hands at the Roney bar while waiting for her Floridivuion . . . Locals report that Rocky Graziano is completely defeated in spirit and heart and may never fight again, even if reinstated . . . The buzz Is that Anna May Wong (one-time Chinese) film star) is seriously ailing and! broke . . . The Duke of Leeds and' Mrs. A. Young have been riveted. . . . The Prince Regent of Belgium, Charles, is not on speaking terms with his mother, the Dowager Queen, which makes court life in Brussels a little difficult these days . . . W. Churchill has cut his cigars down to only 19 a day. Henry Luce, the Time-Life proprietor, Is said to have started bis own loyalty check among all staffers . . . William 8. Schlamm, a member of the board f editors of Luce's Fortune For-tune staff (he contributes editorials edi-torials occasionally to Lnce's Life), was a Commnnlst leader In Austria In the '20s. Schlamm was one of Austria's top Communist Com-munist writers when he was 28 years old. Since then, it is said, he has been strongly anti-Communist. He came to the U. 8. In 1938, was naturalized in 1944. Ills official position with Lure is "assistant to the editor-in-chief of Time, Lire and Fortune" ... I lie has written articles for the Nation, the Saturday Review of Literature and other mags. Mrs. Byron Foy is teddibly miffed iver not being Included in the Zest Dressed List for the first time. I (Things to worry about) . . . Max ! Schmeling Is up to here in trouble with the Red gendarmes in Germany. Ger-many. Spent several nights in the Jug and was beaten worse than he got from J. Louis . . . Virginia Hill's Mexico City bodyguard is an over-6 ft. amazon ... Big excitement Christmas Eve (on Park Avenoo) when a gallant millionaire serenaded sere-naded his estranged wife with a banjo under her 1st floor window. Her boy friend ended the show by breaking the banjo on the husband's conk . . . The keddidge trade will be overjoyed to know that on Jan. 7th S. Billingsiey presents Benny Goodman in "Bop Comes to the Stork Club" . . . Ice skster Gretch-en Gretch-en Merrill is making Bud Weeks even weeker. neadllne In the N. Y. Times: "Unusually "Un-usually High Level of Business is Forecast by Economists for '49" . . .' When this newscaster kept saying It (all through November and December) some Wall Street "experts" "ex-perts" denounced "the shoddy reporting" re-porting" ... As a result of the drop in the price of sheet steel (from $270 to $170 per ton) one big grey-marketeer grey-marketeer just lost $1,500,000 on one order ... One of the biggest isw firms in the stock sector is in trouble. A senior partner allegedly inserted his own name in a railroad person's will declaring himself sole executor. The Clarence Mases (he's the Negre star) will celebrate their 25th ann'y In the Renotable manner man-ner .. . His estranged wire, Georgette Windsor, has Just fonnd ont that H. Cnshing, 4th, Inherits another mint from his late nncle, Wm. Gebhard . . Nice Gola Dept.: The John Har-veys Har-veys (actress Judy Parrish) tot, Jedy, sang the Chanukah aong (Jewish) at the Midtown Children's School Christmas event. The Harveys are Cath-Hca Cath-Hca . . . Now have this contrast (via United Press): A pet cemetery ceme-tery la Washington, D. C, now bars dogs "if they belong to Colored people" . . . It's a laddl-tlon laddl-tlon for the Ell Casses (Phyllis Kraus), born Clirlstmas Day on their ann'y. At Park East heap. . . . Some top men at New Republic Re-public mag have been advised to aeek ether jobs . . . Sights Yon Never See on Television: John Kieraa (top "Information" maa) on the 59th St. snbway atation puzzled over which train to take for UDtown. for nptown. The Runyon Committee embracet che remarkable talent that enriched the Fund in Miami Beach- -ditto all the Roney Plaza staff, the Jr Chamber of Commerce and th Copa City night club. The lattei closed down to put on the rained out show-scheduled at the Roney g outdoor gardens ... We are omit ting all name for fear of neglecting one and the list is nowhere ir sight in the heavy holiday mail or our desk ... At the Copa City event the Fund. Treas. turned ovei another $150,000 to the American Cancer Society. To send doctors tt ny medical school o- college (Uie elect) to pursue the Killer. |