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Show Alan About Town: New Yorkers Are Talking About: The jacket on Ed Flynn's autobiography, autobiog-raphy, "You're the Boss," which blurbs: "A quarter of a century in office and never lost an election." (Before Wallace invaded the Bronx, that is). . . . The sassy way his be-littlers be-littlers are spelling the President's name: "Thurman." . . . The pearl studs which George (maitre d' of the Waldorf's Norse room) proudly wears. A gift from a member of Gen. J. J. Pershing's family, whose mother owned them. Valued at $1,000 each. . . . Governor Dewey's plan to remove tax exemptions from New York state schools that go in for discrimination. He will kill state aid to them too. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's grim admission: "Selective service is getting ready for whatever comes up. We have four plans just in case." The Late Watch: Forty-second street movie grind-houses are bidding bid-ding high for "westerns" (featuring Winthrop Rockefeller's bride) so they can put the Rockefeller name up in the marquee mazdas. . . . One of the Kerry Blue pups owned by Mrs. Dook of Windsor bit her husband hus-band on his royal finger. (Nize li'l dawgy). . . . Talk about puttin' on airs how about Barney Baruch's secretary who rides to work in a Rolls Royce? . . . Nancy Oakes' mansion on Tokyo street, Mexico City, has a living room with a swimming swim-ming pool. . . . MGMagnate L. B. Mayer sank two million bux into horse-racing. He got back four and a half "mill." For the rich they zinggg! It is easy to see the difference between FDR and Mr. Truman. Roosevelt put the country back in the hands of the people and Mr. Truman put it hack in the hands of the Republicans. The Intelligentsia: Editorial research re-search revealed that about 50 tales credited to DeMaupassant weren't written by him at all. And so a Doubleday reprint of DeMaupassant stories is held up. . . . Lydia O'Leary's story now is in school textbooks. She is the inventor of Covermark, which helps women cover scars and gives relief to war vets whose faces were disfigured. . . . Little, Brown, publishers of "Missouri Compromise" (by Tris Coffin), are completely mystified. Because McGrath (chairman of the Democrats' campaign to keep Mr. Truman in the White House) requested re-quested permission to quote it. The book lambasts the bejabers out of Mr. Truman. He's the Missouri "compromise"! Broadway Wallingford: The newest new-est shol-in-the-arm for the night club trade appears to be a portable recording record-ing box. . . . It's about a foot square with which a pretty girl makes an eight-inch take-home disc of the patron's pa-tron's voice kidding with the head-waiter, head-waiter, the emcee, the chorines, et al. . . . It is all done in five minutes. . . . It was quietly tried out recently in a B'way night club and coined so many dollars each night that every concessionaire conces-sionaire in town is frantically' bidding to "get in on it". . . . The disk-overy is the first real novelty cafe come-on since the photo girls were introduced a decade dec-ade ago. . . . The new gadget was perfected per-fected (after two years' hard work) by a veteran night spot hatchick whose name is Wini Berman. . . . Copycats won't be able to ape the gimmick for a year, during which time Wini and her partners will make terrific Internal ReveNews. Manhattan Murals: The St. Patrick's bells saying their prayers. . . . The $250 camel's hair overcoats which cost more than any camel. . . . The elderly gent who strolls along 5th avenue av-enue with a live cat around his neck. . . . The pigeon feeder who never fails to feed them no matter how cold the day. Puts the peanuts on a clean plate for his many winged friends. . . . The candy firm at Amsterdam and 90th whose slogan: "Tell It to Sweetey." . . . The pretty debutante seen often along Park avenue with her collie. Both sporting the same silvery white-tinted white-tinted hair. The Story Tellers: So you want to write a book? Publishing authorities say the average "successful book" nets the author a profit of merely $4,50CP before tax deductions. . . . The heroine of Christopher Morley's next book, "Miss Libby," is Everybody's Every-body's Girl Friend, the Statue of Liberty. . . . Publisher's Weekly will name Russell Janney s Miracle of the Bells" the No. 1 fiction ace of '47 375,000 copies to date, exclusive of book club sales. The author was almost down and out after the failure fail-ure of his "Vagabond King" revival during the war. He now is back in the tall tax tower. Leo Durocher will earn $75,-000 $75,-000 next season if the Dodgers top their 1947 attendance record. . . . Joe Di Maggio now makes nearly as much salary as the president of the U. S. . . . What a country! Your boy can grow up and become a center fielder! |