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Show The New York, Washington And Hollywood Express: Nancy de Marigny will inherit $4,000,000 from the Oakes estate when matters are probated In Canada. Can-ada. She also gets $1,400,000 from the fortune Oakcs left in Nassau . . . But not until she is 30, and she's 19 now . . . Wise father . . . She's virtually broke had to hock her Nassau farm, etc., to raise $30,000 for the defense fee. The lawyers, however, cut their retainer in half when they learned she didn't have it . . . Intimates say the reason Dorothy Thompson has been so sentimental sen-timental about postwar Germany is that she'd like to be the first Ambassador Am-bassador to Germany after the war to straighten them all out. She's said to be working on it already . . . Pearl Buck's comment on the Chinese Chi-nese situation: "We send missionaries mission-aries to China so they can go to Heaven but we won't let them into this country." Damon Runyon, in his confessional confession-al the other day, admitted bravely enough: "My prediction that the war in Europe will be over by Christmas Christ-mas now seems somewhat Improbable" Improb-able" . . . Somewhat, indeed . . . We wondered who would make such a statement ... We certainly never thought Runyon would want to eon-tribute eon-tribute to the complacency set . . . It is comforting to learn, however, that he Is the first to debunk his own error ... We wish his friend, Richard Tregaskis, author of "Guadalcanal Diary," would tell his publishers to catch the next edition of his book and omit our name where he carelessly put it and replace re-place it with Damon's . . . Because we never said that any war would be over at any time ... We are the guy who always said It would never be over for some of us . . . And that when anybody asked: "When is the war going to end?" the reply has always been: "When we win. It!! I" The Statler In the Capital turned away 321 contingent reservations one day last week ... We recently mentioned a war mother's complaint about conditions In an Army hospital (at Tuscaloosa, Ala.) for returned wounded. She told us the bed linen hadn't been changed for two weeks, the men's pajamas ditto, the food awful, etc . . . We sent her charges to the War Dep't ... As a result, the commanding officer of that hospital hos-pital has been replaced and H.OOO rushed to improve conditions. We wish servicemen's newspapers everywhere ev-erywhere would reprint that, please. Edmund Wilson replaces Clifton Fadiman as the book critic on The New Yorker . . . Warner's has offered of-fered Kyle Crichton of Collier's a contract to write out there ... In Miami Beach the soldiers (who sing as they march) Invariably shout: "What the hell are we fighting forT The WACS and WAVES will win the war!" . . . FDR might be amused to read page 23 of the Feb. 15th, 1908, Issue of the Saturday Evening Eve-ning Post. The article on the page Is titled: "Is Roosevelt a Menace to Business?" ... A noted FDR booster boost-er was being teased about his loyalty loyal-ty .. . "Listen," said the heckler, "Willkle has his eye on the presidential presi-dential chair again!" . . . "That," was the retort, "isn't quite as good as what Roosevelt's got on it." The bootlegger, who has already emerged in the firewater shortage, is one who shouldn't have the social standing he had in the Dry Era . . . Now the circumstances are different differ-ent If a man encourages a Black Market in booze Just to get himself an occasional quart, he's doing something that hurts . . . The Black Market needs only something like a popular product like booze to crack the whole structure of price control ... If booze gets flowing Illegally, it's going to flood the works. You can drink yourself right into inflation, brother. This Is how the Astors became New York's biggest real estate operators: op-erators: During the War of 1812 the blockade hurt merchants most Astor loaned them money, refusing all collateral but mortgages. He gained all of his property through foreclosures . . . Waterfront workers work-ers have names for various piers. They arc usually named after women wom-en .. . Years ago the city's biggest sporting events were races between steamships in the Hudson ... A ship laden with gold was sunk in Hell Gate Channel, 50 years ago a part of Long Island Sound. Many attempts have been made to recover the treasure, but the gold Is still there. Recently the AP and others reported re-ported that correspondent Larry Allen (token prisoner by the enemy) en-emy) had escaped and walked for a month back to our lines . . . Later the story, never confirmed, was declared de-clared false . . . Intimates Just got postcard from the newspaper man dated Oct 7th . . . So, the stories that he escaped two months ago do not stand up. Mailed It from the same camp he'd been at for a year . . . A new lipstick due toon will be slogan'd: "Guaranteed to Leave Its Mark" on letters to soldiers. |