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Show K -ir!s Memos of a Girl Friday: Dear Mr. M.: This delightful Win-ihrop Win-ihrop Rockefeller story just came over the phone . . . The day his son was born fal Polyclinic Hospital) the young til-lionaire til-lionaire went up to a nervous parent-to-be and exclaimed: "Just had a ooyJ Have a cigar!" . . . Congratulations, mid the man, "I don't smoke cigars" . . . 'Then have a cigarette," said Rockefeller Rocke-feller . . . "I don't smoke at all, but thanks," said the fellow . . . "Join me in irink?" asked Winthrop . . ."I dont Imbibe, but thanks," said the chap . . . 'Then fergoodnessakes, take something!" some-thing!" persisted Rockefeller, handing the stranger a $100 bill as he left. Have some nonsensorshlp: An idv. agency exec refused permis-lion permis-lion to Walton & O'Rourke to have heir wonderful dowager puppet televised! . . . Did you know that the gangster taken for a ride was narried to a "name" singer? . . . Parents Magazine just awarded Drson Welles' "Macbeth" the Med-il Med-il of Special Merit. It will say in Its mag that the Italian critics' cen-lure cen-lure of it was unjust, etc. . . . Disc lockeys have to be careful how they ipot Blue Barron's new ditty, "You Were Only Fooling." The other (ve'g it was played right after a :andidate's speech ... A national jampaign is due in the mags and papyrus "to make men corset-con-jcious" and hide their bulges . . . Xour line about Nevada Smith wanting want-ing a stage role "as she is tired f Just walking around cafe floors looking beautiful" got a part for ler. Where can I locate La Doll-puss? Doll-puss? OVERSEAS TICKER The International Set hears that King Zog, exiled monarch of a Communist-controlled nation, na-tion, has been ditched by Her Highness. Because of his yoo-hooing yoo-hooing . . . Lady Evelyn Leslie will mary G. IViackworth-Young of the Welsh Guards . . . King Farouk of Egypt is having his Caddy made bullet-proof by a West Street (New York) iron-cmith iron-cmith . . . The Maharajah of Baroda (recently accused of squandering millions while touring) tour-ing) is missed by waiters on the Continent (and B'way) because be-cause he was the biggest tipper since Diamond Jim Brady . . . Rome and Milan stay-up-lates are agog over the romance of Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli and Pamela Churchill. Latest Lowdown on the Nancy horemi matter: The divorce plan which she couldn't deny to report-:rs report-:rs at the airport) will be filed in nid-winter at Alexandria, Egypt. 3e will charge desertion, despite he fact that she left him over a jelle there . .' . She will spend the lall at Casablanca with her diplo-nat diplo-nat father, then go to Alexandria .o dwell with her mother-in-law! Several Texas oil men threw a jarty at El Borracho. It was high-ighted high-ighted by a 4-foot cake decorated with sterilized gold coins. During Ihe hub-bub a chorine-guest ex-:laimed: ex-:laimed: "Migawd! I swallowed a lold piece!" "That's awright, gal," a Texan lurriedly assured her. "Thar's plenty plen-ty more in that cake." A British official was gabbing with Washington reporters about our finances. fi-nances. "By the way," said the Lon-loner, Lon-loner, "why do you chaps refer to .t as folding money?" "Because," was the Retort De-ightful, De-ightful, "it's the only thing that's cept England from folding!" Air Secretary Symington told the story of the super-sound pilot rocketing at over 900 miles per hour at a great altitude where "the sun looked like the moon and the stars were out in the black sky." "That was a terrific ter-rific experience," said the air force chief. "In that new world what could you have been thinking think-ing about?" "Thinking" was the nnphony reply, "how I'd get down!" May Craig, New England's gift to the Vhite House press corps, recently got tack from Berlin, where she flew with the Air Lift. A commentator interviewed ier about it over a Boston station. 'What," he inquired, "was your big impression im-pression of our air lift?" "It sure surprised sur-prised hell outia the Russians!" May idlibbed. "Which is exactly what you iust did to the F. C. C," almost choked he fellow, pushing the nearest button. Manhattan Murals: Thousands of Sew Yorkers jamming 32nd Street Iduring lunch hour) to agonize over i canary frantically fluttering along i 2nd floor ledge of the Gimbel Bldg. . . The eerie jungle sounds at night n Fulton street-from Trefflich's inimal warehouse ... The night watchman at the Roseland bldg garbed in pastel-hued trousers, bare ;ootsies in straw sandals and a gay oandana around his throat . The ichool kids on 5th Avenue gawking at a stately, dignified Hindu, and 3ne informing: "That's an Indian!" . . "Gwan," was the reply 'Where's his tedders?" Gen. Clay tells U. S. scribes in BerUn: "I don't think war is just around the corner." It's merely around the whole darn globe. |