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Show Man About Town: Doris Duke, who was so happy to be 'lust plain single again," has lost her heart to Robert Cunning-ham-Reid, ex-member of the Philip Mountbatten crowd. . . . Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek is seeking an estate es-tate ln Conn., near the Henry (Time)Luces. Just in case her husband's hus-band's regime falls. . . . The Duke of Edinburgh and the royal femlee have phffft. . . . Critic Ward Morehouse's More-house's favorite actress (on and off stage) is Peggy French. . . . Archduke Arch-duke Felix of Austria is the Bank of Mexico's new exec in Washington. Washing-ton. . . . Curtis Swift of the meatpacking meat-packing mint and Helen Keating, the model, are idylling on their own personal cloud. Insiders expect a bill to be introduced raising Mr. Trus-velt's Trus-velt's wages from 75 to 125Ga. . . . Mrs. FDR can have her fholce of a cabinet post (or ambassadorship) but won't consider con-sider the latter because she "can't live abroad." ... The market has dropped almost 8-billlon 8-billlon bux since the election, although V. 8. corporations made 20-bllIlons profit last year the highest In history. Life Is Like That Dept.: We pegged a few boners ln the Life layout on the Chicago plunder-world. plunder-world. . . . It's a favorite pastime of mag men and others who use the refuge of the nom de plume (or editorial page) to guce us common colyumers. . . . Anyhow, in the same Life layout was a picture of two Chicago police heroes in the office of the Chicago Herald-American. The caption carelessly stated they were fired for failing to appear before a grand jury. My editor in Chicago says they actually were fired because they dared to arrest a henchman of the Chlcagorillas. Champ Cerdan chang$d French .portsu riter't nose because he linked bim with a noted French canary. Cerdan Cer-dan has a wife! . . . The divorce racket txpose has most lawyers in town shiv-tring. shiv-tring. The, authorities claim at least three-fourths of the New York meltings melt-ings art framed via consent of both parties. . . . They say Empire City will become a trotter track next season to combat Roosevelt Raceway competisb. "Buck" Jones, cowboy actor reported re-ported among the dead in that Boston Bos-ton night club fire in 1942, told the Newark (O) Advocate he isn't dead. News services should follow this up to make sure the claimant is Buck. . . . Tito Schipa, the Fascist, took out his first citizenship papers last month. Please ask the U. S. Immigration Dept to look up his Mussolinj record. . . . Lucien Ballard Bal-lard (Merle Oberon's ex) and the former Lorelle McCarver have called it "30" in Paree. . . . Kurt Singer's new tome, "3000 Years of Espionage," was published on Pearl Harbor Day. . . . Major M. R. Samuel has succeeded his late pater (the head of Shell Oil) as Lord Bearsted. . . . Nearly all of N. Y. is talking about two well-known well-known women who staged a bacchanalian bac-chanalian orgy over on Park Ave. 'n the 50s. Gov. Clements will appoint Owald Brown (The Louisville distller) to keep Vlce-I'rei Barkley's Senate pew warm for him until the 1950 elections. . . . Isn't J. Stalin (the famous Russian) getting more medical treatment in Southern Russia? ... Ad agencies expec a wartime war-time boom If Congress pushes through that excess profit tax. ... A tei.nistir has been Jailed In Texas on embciilcmcnt charges. . . . Evelyn Teterson, the ex-Copa cutle (profiled In Life as the gal who went home to Main Street because Rroad-way Rroad-way was too rough), will be big town-bound again sooti. . , . Linda Darnell was told to leave her colored maid in California during the filming of ZOlh's "Slattery'a Hurricane" In Miami. Mi-ami. Sophlo Tucker always brings hers. ... All the new hotels ho-tels (but one) In Miami Reach have run out of money and are begging for 2nd mortgagi coin. . , . tiov.-Elect Fuller Warren brought the Run) on Fund his $300 In person! Our Rest False Friend Dept. I We skimmed over a hookedup rap ' printed about us (the other day) just to observe that the knocker was the recipient of several requested "lifts" through the years. . . . Girl Friday (who has a memory like a memory) Just put the following fol-lowing on our detk. It was written by the chap in 1943: "My dear Walter: Thanks very much. The item about needing blood (for the baby and my wife) brought ln so many donors the Margaret Hague Maternity Hnsp wishes your good readers would gives their lib tech nlclans a rest. Elinor has had 8 transfusions, but she Is sitting up Gratitude, Walter. Is like a Summer breeze; you can feel its warmth, but you can never see It or de scribe it. Love, Jim." Oh. that's nil right, kid. You must have needed the money ver badly. Fergetit |