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Show Editor's Note: While Winchell Is on vacation. Jack Lait is acting act-ing as guest columnist. News Nuggets A former screen star, who made a fortune, lists her youthful husband, hus-band, on her income tax questionnaire, question-naire, as a dependent. ... The only Rolls-Royce in Saratoga belongs to Mrs. Leo Best, of our Hotel Plaza. ... My item, that the Warner-Joan Crawford contract Is unsigned, was verified to me. The reason: Joan demands a clause that her every picture be released within six months. "Humoresque" is being held back because the studio wants it in competition for next year's Oscar Os-car awards. . . Walter Florell, the ,hat designer, won't break through his CJPA ceiling only $100. . . . The Windsors check in at the Waldorf, Oct. 1. . . . Jimmy Savo is seriously seri-ously ill In a Los Angeles hospital. . . . The much-sought Nijinsky is reported in Vienna. . . : Lew Ayres will be best man for Jennifer Holt and Bill Blackwell, Sept. 25. New York's newest fabulous party thrower is Dick Cowell. I don't remember seeing his name In print before. He has a Park Ave. home that well, he entertains 300 guests at one time. And that's almost nightly. night-ly. .. . He goes in for gold In a big way dishes, trappings, even his personal toilet articles. .' . . One guest swiped his all-gold all-gold nailfile recently. . . . Please return; no questions asked. A Crisis Is Imminent in the domestic domes-tic affairs of the John Jacob Astors. . . . Virgo, the model, calling it all a mistake after one week of marriage. mar-riage. . . . Midtown hotels are still clearing out permanent guests; some refuse to rent rooms that can accommodate two as singles at less than the double rate. . . . Platinum, up from $60 to $90 an ounce, will go to $120, jewelers anticipate. an-ticipate. . . . Swedish filmagnate Gustav Walley is here to line up acting talent. . . . Faith Dorn, Howard How-ard Hughes' movie protege, whose name he spent a fortune to ballyhoo, bally-hoo, will be billed in Preston, Stur-ges' Stur-ges' "Vendetta" as Faith Domergue. . . . Col. Charles Lindbergh is occupied oc-cupied with a new scientific experiment, experi-ment, nothing to do with aviation. Beatrice Kay stops me to dab her eyes with a hankie and say, "I'm mourning for a dear friend, who just went to his eter-nal eter-nal rest he got a political job In Washington!" John Boles, ex-screen star, has come back as a floorshow singer. H13 click at the Arrowhead Inn brought him a string of cabaret offers. of-fers. . . . Lew Lehr, the comical clown, bought the 68-acre Colonial mansion of the late Col. E. R. Bradley Brad-ley at New Canaan, Conn. . . . June Havoc is in again for a plastic her third, or is it fourth? This one is a dilly, I hear to remove rines from under her eyes! . . . Three months ago, James Barry, bariton-ing bariton-ing at the Havana-Madrid, ran an elevator in the Paramount Bldg. . . . Bee Palmer, Ai egel's first wife and first star, after a 20-year chill, came to him to say she would stand by him in any threatened litigation. . . . The Tommy Farrells (he's Glenda's actor son) have their final decree. Jerome Wildberg, producer, has never tasted liquor in his life. He had to make a phone-call phone-call and had nothing smaller than a $5 bill. He went into a cheap groggery, ordered whisky which he didn't touch, handed over the bill. As he waited for the change, a lush put his arm on his shoulder and hoarsed: "You know, we're a couple o damned fools!" (And with that he passed out.) Sen. James Mead is in for a decisive de-cisive trouncing by Gov. Tom Dewey in his forthcoming race for governor gover-nor of New York. ... I raise my former prediction of a 500,000 majority ma-jority to 600,000. . . . Ex-Gov. Herbert Her-bert Lehman, foremost contender for the Democratic nomination to Mead's senate seat, can scarcely overcome such a sweep, although he is expected to run 200,000 to 250 000 ahead of Mead. . . . Gen. Hugh A. Drum, apparently Dewey's choice, is an unknown in politics a regular army man, commissioned by President McKinley when his father, fa-ther, a captain, was killed in the Spanish-American war. as a campaigner he has no record and it is difficult to predict what sort of individual showing he will make. Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Tw-lor Tw-lor have applied for passports, with visas to Sweden. . . Anne Sothern's sister, Bonnie Lake will lead a 10 singer ensemble. . . . Good for D;,vid Brooks! He discarded his micro-Phone micro-Phone at Cafe Society Uptown. d is even more effective. "Thr. Broadway Girls," stlulUv' curuZ contender, is Zoe Aldus' oldie "Tho Greeks Had a Word for It." 'u w,ls a Goklwyn picture, with Ina ci-uio Joan Blonclell and M;ulgu KviWs hi leading roles. , |