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Show mi ft 1 r v i While Walter Winchell is away, this month, his column will be con- ducted by guest columnists. Broadway and Elsewhere By JACK LAIT Whispered in Washington Impending changes Lt. Gen. Ken-ney Ken-ney to succeed Gen. Arnold as chief of Army Air forces. . . . Admiral Nlmltz to get Admiral King's cushy Navy post when King is ready to retire, re-tire, which won't be right away. . . .' Undersecretary Sullivan is re-; garded as having the best chance to fill in when Secretary of the Navy Forrestal steps down. . . . Secretary Secre-tary of Commerce Wallace isn't as sure of sticking as he and his "liberal" "lib-eral" friends think he is. ... A labor la-bor bloc in the Senate, prodded by CIO's Sidney Hillman and Rep. Vito Marcantonio, is organizing to demand de-mand that President Truman veer sharply left or not only face a legislative legis-lative fight, but possibly a new, third party on a nucleus of the American Labor Party and Political Action Committees. ... In this group are Senators Wagner, Kilgore, Pepper,; Hill, Guffey and Murray, and they are working on Magnuson, Thomas and Mead, who haven't yet decided to go all out. Congress will get a battle from the Army. . . . The legislators, fresh from their home constituencies,; will whoop it up for more and quicker quick-er discharges. . . . The Army will resist. . . . The lawmakers will claim that on the present 85-point system, only about 1,000,000 are eligible eli-gible for "release, and they will propose pro-pose milltantly that the basic mini-: mum be reduced at once to 60 points or less. . . . The army will argue that keeping men in uniform is the perfect answer to unemployment unemploy-ment during the reconversion interim. inter-im. . . . But, In its secret councils, the Army doesn't monkey much with economic strategy just wants to keep a big Army. East Coast, West Coast Clark Gable's real name Is William Wil-liam William Clark Gable. . . . Warners have settled on the man to play Will Rogers Joel McCrea. . . . Lt. Henry Fonda, in the Navy since '42, has won the Bronze Star lor heroism in the Mariannas. But they say his domestic affairs are not too happy. . . . MGM's official biography of Robert TSonat.says, ith no amplification or footnotes: " Returning to England, he resumed re-sumed his film career in '39 Steps' and 'Night Without Armor,' with Marlene Dietrich, then took a six months' leave of absence to regain his health." . . . Jack Dempsey and his two daughters are living in a house rented from Estelle Taylor, where Jack and Estelle spent their honeymoon. There is talk since she divorced Paul Small, she may re-wed re-wed the Old Mauler. Many who saw the sharp and striking strik-ing MGM newsreel reporting of the plane crash against the upper stories of the Empire State Building Build-ing may have admired the enterprise enter-prise which made these releases by far the best. Therefore, they may bo Interested in the story behind the story. . . . "Newsreel" Wong, the famous fa-mous Chinese photographer who has been with Metro 21 years and has covered every battlefront and the far reaches of the globe for news subjects, sub-jects, was given a furlough while attached to Gen. MacArthur on Luzon. Lu-zon. ... He decided to spend it in New York, the only place of Interest Inter-est and importance he had never before be-fore visited. ... He arrived on a Saturday morning, in uniform and with his cameras, looked up the Metro Manhattan office in the phone book, and went there. The place was closed for the day, but some scrubwomen scrub-women were at work and so the door was open. . . . Wong was about to leave, when a telephone, hooked on through the switchboard, rang. He picked it up. An excited voice reported re-ported the crash. . . . Wong grabbed a cab. Police lines were closed, but because of his uniform and a breast-ful breast-ful of service ribbons he was al- lowed uirougn. ... He dia his stuff with his usual vigor and sped back to the office. ... By that time, th executives had heard of the hot story and were In and 'phoning for photographers frantically, when Wong, whom they had never seen, whose presence on this continent was news to them, entered with the whole thing In his bag. . . . They slapped him on the back, hugged him, etc. . . . "That's quite all right," said Wong. "I always did want to see the Empire State Buikl-Ingl" Buikl-Ingl" Investigators of two Congressional Congression-al committee are In Hollywood, looking Into the activities of the Communist groups In that area. With the "degradation" of Farl Biowder by his monkey -glandcd rrty, a lot of the boys and gh'ls In the picture colony and its ottshoots felt they hint to K't furiously busy to prove their Rod loyalty, . . , When a resolution ootuloninln; communism com-munism v.i presented to the Ceutv.il Labor Council of CaUlonu;!, thtj motion pU'Uu'o ci'iifts Wfiv In tho foreground voting It down. |