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Show If joj i,r frum j-' pinch come the Yuletiiles i'.F here's a grand way to get V the gift-giving problem P W U smokers on your list, order A tons of mild, flavorful Camel?' & arettes and pound tins of P S Albert Smoking Tobacco-the l'"Ct est-selling smoking tobacco in3,'8' tfK country. When you give Caw K or Prince Albert, you're smoking pleasure at its best! ! a generous supply 0f it' ? n A"V Camel carton, for example m!! K Y' tains 200 mild, cool cigar.! rar Both Camels and Prince aS "nt packages will fit in perfectly 2 Je the spirit of the season, j h to then- colorful and gay , pings There s even ample spa ai provided for a "Merry ChrisC " message in your own handwritim, If you remind your dealer Dct U to put away a gift-quota of CamA i'ie -and Prince Albert, he can hav them ready when you want them (Adv.) mer5' il I -"O-1 j U I ,ii'WUS"" ' Man About Town: John Astor, who will Inherit The London Times, and Nancy Benton (Powers model) will middle-aisle! The Vogue publisher (now being unmarried) wants Garbo foi his next. . . . Frankie Carle's voc-allure voc-allure (and dghtr), Marjorie Hughes, plans joining the Reno-toriuous. Reno-toriuous. . . . Joan Myles eloped to Vegas Satdee with Don Vande-griff Vande-griff of Beverly Hills. . . . Oscar Hammerstein's ward was wed . at Doylestown to Dwight Whitney of Time-Life. . . . Defense Secy James Forrestal's intimates hear he won't be In Dewey's Cabinet. He'll write a book tagged: "How American Big Business Won the War." . . . Attorney Attor-ney General Tom Clark is another cabinet member making plans now. Opens barrister offices in Washington Washing-ton after Jan. 21st with 3 Texas branches. . . . The Stork-Colony set won't be surprised if (after Julia Donahue gets her divorce) Tommy Higgins weds a kin of Pres. Harding. Hard-ing. .. . What Gen. Clay hasn't revealed publicly is that he had two "personal" interviews with Use Koch before okaying the reduction in her life sentence to a few seasons. sea-sons. Cocka-Doodle-Doooo! We debunked de-bunked the Army's (and Clay's) alibi that the lamp-shade evi- dence on La Koch "was merely hearsay; that no lamp shades could be found, etc." ... We told all concerned to dig up the Army's own film, "Lest We Forget" For-get" (in Technicolor, no less!) taken by our troops entering Buchenwald concentration camp. ... On the air we told Secy of War Royall (who said "there's no such evidence") to look at this gruesome film and get himself very sick. Winston Churchill's signature (on Yuletide cards) can be had for 35c. British publisher B. T. Batsford will introduce them here shortly. . . . Mrs. R. Fleet, ex-wifp of tbf founder foun-der of Consolidated Aircraft, will try it again with a New York realty man. She's the socialite whose divorce di-vorce settlement was the largest in California history: 4 million bux. . . . Sonny Griswold, the savings bank that walks, and Jerry Pierce of the social register have resumed where they left off 15 years ago. Both were sweethearts then married mar-ried others (who died) and now probably will wed. . . . The Robert Weils, he's the shoe prexy, had it dissolved in Renovaltine. . . . Virginia Vir-ginia Huston and D. Brian, both of the Thittr, are writing their own romantic plot. . . . Now You've Heard Everything Dept: A 57th Street (near B'way) drug store peddles men's hairnets! The slump in all entertainment fields continues. . . . Income is down. . . . People are spending their pay on rent and food. . . . Book sales are off 20 p. c. (with publishers most worried about the competition now offered by television.set owners. . . . Movie box-offices report "it is box-awful!" box-awful!" with biz off from 50 to 60 p. c. in some cities. . : . Music biz is hardest hit; name bands have trouble meeting payrolls. . . . Song hits that once sold half-a-million copies now sell about 40,000 copies of sheet music. . . . Even television has the blues. One station laid off 40 last week. MOTORISTS'. Better stock up on anti-freeie. The shortage is expected to be worse than last time, after the first cold blast. Overseas Ticker: New Yorkers abroad hear that Babs Hutton's long illness is leukemia. . . . Spanish Span-ish grandees feel Franco's daughter, daugh-ter, Carmencita, is not making a great catch in marrying the Marques Mar-ques de Villaverde. "Provincial," they sniff. ... Is all well with the Marquis Perrone and his Hungarian Princess wife? He's the Italian vice-consul in N. Y. . . . Arabia's Ibn Saud has 15 sons scattered at various military establishments around the globe. . . . The King of Siam is expected to leave for another operation at John Hopkins, Baltimore. . . . Nancy Choremi is being wined and dined by the Cairo elite, who "don't believe everything they read in the papers." The Intelligenstia: Westport sculptor sculp-tor Justin Sturm's bronze head of Theresa Helburn is blue. To match her blue-dyed hair. . . . Lili Foldes, author of "Two on a Continent," has a second tome ready for April release. The title is "Thanks for the Memory" (Dutton). . . . Doubleday Doran will publish "The Dark Mare" in the Spring. Damsey Wilson, Wil-son, the author, is the wife of barrister bar-rister George Glassgold. . . . Don't miss Edgar Ansel Mowrer's "The Nightmare of American Foreign Policy" (Knopf). Due this week. . . . J. Kugelmass has a neat name for his Reader's Digest piece on Louis Braille: "He Gave Them Windows." . . . Simon & Schuster expect Billy Rose's "Wine, Women and Words" to skyrocket. The initial ini-tial $1 format printing is 100,000 . . . London papers say there are 55 errors in Churchill's "The Gath ering Storm." |