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Show Snoivflakes : King George of Greece is Irked with his public relations experts. They kept him staying in his London hotel room during the Athens mess instead ol okaying His Highness' usual routine of making the London late places surrounded by a bevy of beauts. . . . Cuba's Batista will settle in Brazil. The Federal Trade commission Is checking up on endorsers of products prod-ucts in ads. Wants to find out if the celebs who endorse them actually use them. . . . The reason for the New York butcher strike is this: The Gov't clamped down hard on black marketing. The butchers learned the fine was too high to make any profit, even at b.m. fees. They decided it was cheaper to get out of business than make wholesalers whole-salers rich and themselves poor. Add rackets: Phones in Florida are bringing as high as $500 each from people who lost theirs to the armed forces a year ago. . . . The mobs are set to run the bookmak-ing bookmak-ing in Mexico and Havana. They had been figuring on the tracks suffering suf-fering disaster for more than a year. . . Sidney Kingsley dashed off a five page scenario in 30 minutes, min-utes, for which Zanuck paid him $50,000. More than a 1,000 smackers per minute. Though war plant absenteeism was a contributing factor, the Washington Wash-ington grapevine is saying that the main reason for closing the tracks was this: congress was preparing ' to stick a 10 per cent tax on the mutuels, and the track owners (instead (in-stead of cooperating gladly in view of the fortunes they've garnered lately) made ready to fight it. . . . It was their attitude, more than anything any-thing else, which irritated the powers pow-ers that be. The first Broadway hit show to beat the jinx of the amusement page alphabetical listing is "A Bell for Adano." . . . Many shows that put an "A" in front of the title to inherit the top of the list flopped. "Angel Street" was the exception for a long time. . . . The commies in Indianapolis, Erie and Buffalo last week started their campaign to mscreait u-man Hoover with a national na-tional smear attack. . , . They say N. Y. Times' critic, Brooks Atkinson Atkin-son (now in the hospital after a long session covering China's part in the war), doesn't want to resume ' drama-inspecting. He prefers doing something important, such as his recent re-cent assignment. His excellent reports re-ports are credited with actually in-fluencing- U. S. policy in the Orient. Faces About Town: Libby Hol-man, Hol-man, the blues thrush-tobacco heiress, heir-ess, who is quietly backing Broadway ' ' chief John Kirby. $5,000 wealthier after winning a libel li-bel action from a Pittsburgh writer - cast aspersions on his drai status. . . . Canary Bernice Park-currently Park-currently at the St. Regis, who wi decorate Life's pages as besl dressed gaL She has 16 fur coats Her match book covers featur, photos of her feller. . . Horac, MacMahon, one of the stage's cap. bles, serving the nation by deliver war bond speeches-while wait mg for producers to come to theii sense,. . Milton Berle. who a Joe E. Lewis over the song, "Sam You Made the Pants Too Long! A.8 Kin.l' Week By Dr' Eh A. Kmg): Do you rememb Hazlitt hwf r IT'' b Willi Hazlitt in one of his famous essays? The JuggIer was perfect .n ay7 and catching brass balls-keen nf four in the air at once That whole .took in tZtZll performed. It was the best h! Z offer and . doubts x mention this becaus. f " could play It. However JL. was found who knZ , man "Yiddisher Ma.:;0Vne,toe' that. 1 80 he Played waTtinTrtinN'Mass Plaven " Lat n' a Jewish bov several bund ed Pe W and -ewsrr- The Radioracles: TnlV k nation. When C'Rs i . about de-Raymond de-Raymond Scott s aSniWeekdrPPed 'which cost thi ?'P CCe orchestra O.OOoTnUo'rlh"0 tha" 'Merited by Mflt rt5 T band, which has onl, , PaCa" cians. . . Ted ah 6 m,,,u ducer of "We th- T"- aetin8 Pro- 1 fbl. bookngU,HPH0Tr,had " spy-cf, f"f t -gram- Because Ad ' Pr-mered Pr-mered near where L " "m--for 25 years "P'8 la"dcd |