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Show i!7ara About Town: Marshall Field, again rumored dickering for a New York eve'g paper, probably won't get it. If the Dewarts sell it to anyone, it would likely be upstate publisher Gannett. . . . The Roney-Pleasure (Miami Beach) is open but very little else is. The hammering, painting and banging depressed some too-early birds, who took the first "Champion" back to the Stork Club. But don't ever let anyone ever tell you that sun doesn't erase sinus clouds immediately. im-mediately. Magic for us. . . . The Ford arm will soon announce blanket blan-ket wage raises up to 15 p. c. to insure complete harmony with the United Auto Workers. That'll leave Gen. Motors and Chrysler holding a large bag unless they ditto. Kathryn Grayson, the star, had to summon neighbors the other sundown sun-down to help her eject a gun-carrying torch-carrier. . . . Chi now has a law which calls for a $25 fine for any . woman driving with a hat that covers one orb. . . . They allege that Einstein told FDR (years ago) that the atomic project wouldn't click. FDR then discussed it with Univ. of Chi's Salazer, who reversed Einstein's Ein-stein's opinion. Juke-bos Makers, who anticipated a big market In England pubs, learned they are a flop there. . . . Jacques Diamond, the coast publicist, publi-cist, showed Admiral Halsey's daughter Marion the Hollywood sights. . . . Sun Valley reopens to the public July 1. . . . Kaltenborn and L. Thomas are tiffing. . . . Mag editors are getting squawks from people that prices are too high. Newsstands hear there will be more than 100 new mags in the next few months. . . . Bill Mauldin, whose book ("Up Front") is dedicated to the wife he is now suing for divorce, is having the dedication changed to read: 'Dedicated to Wives Who Have Been Faithful to Their Husbands." Hus-bands." The Magio Lanterns: Diplomats fattening Nazi rodents on legalistic cheese can learn how to build a better bet-ter rat-trap by viewing the Russky release, "We .Accuse." This is a pictorial record of the Kharkov war-guilt war-guilt trials. The Russians provide nooses for killers pronto, instead of giving them enough rope to skip. . . . "Scared Stiff" is frothier than a bubble-bath. Jack Haley's refreshing refresh-ing spoofing keeps it bubbling. . . . "First Yank Into Tokyo" whams across a bing-bang-up meller tailored in the Errol Flynn style. . . . Repeat boost: "Kiss and Tell" comes through In a blaze of guffaws. Word Juggling: Ma VUlepigue, the 49th St. restaurateur, was recalling re-calling when she had that colorful spot at Sheepshead Bay in the racetrack race-track sector years ago. One of her regular patrons was Diamond Jim Brady, who not only ate like a horse but also showed some horse sense in his talk now and then. "In patterning pat-terning your life," Jim once advised a table full of folk, "you have to decide de-cide whether you want to be liked by people of wealth or by a wealth of people." Quotation Marksmanship: Sarah Lorimer: Dignity is the one thing that cannot be preserved in alcohol. . . . Thomas Wolfe: She opened hearts as though they were lockets. . . . Corneille: The man who pardons par-dons easily courts injury. . . . Jessy-ca Jessy-ca Russell: The clay feet of my idols some day I shall use them to powder my weeping face. . . . H. G. Wells: What on earth would a man do with himself if someone did not stand in his way? . . . Charles Lamb: Not many sounds in life (and I include all urban and rural sounds) exceed in interest a knock on the door. . . . R. M. Hutchins: Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down untii the feeling passes. The Radio City tailor who displays all the colors of the rainbow for men's fashions. . . . The happy tipsy at the Prometheus fountain in Radio City getting himself splashed. . . . The retired air force lieutenant-colonel running a high speed elevator in a midtown skyscraper. . . . Policemen Police-men directing traffic, with the furious furi-ous wind-swept rains scratching their faces. There must be an easier way of making a living. . . . The misers who spend misery days (such ss Monday and Tuesday were in New York) counting up the bonds and G-notes in their safety-deposit boxes. . . . Jacqueline Dalya, the actress, who requests and invariably gets room 711 In the hotel she dwells at from here to Mexico City "711" because be-cause it rhymes with Heaven, she says. Faces About Town: Ex-Secy of the Treasury H. Morgenthau (witn his son in uniform) at the Stork. The FDR cabinet member lost ttis hat-check and asked the girl: "Don't you trust me?" . . . Hank Green-berg, Green-berg, the Detroit Tigers star, being adored by pawtograph-seekers. . . Eddie Foy Jr. continuing In "The Red Mill" with a damaged ankle, which Mrs. Foy said was "as big as his head after thoe wonderful notices." . . . Joan Crawford going for her daily session with a Christian Christ-ian Science practitioner. |