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Show "Cluster city" 13 not the name ol a place, but of a style of city designed de-signed especially for protection against atomic bombs. Tracy B. Augur, a city planner and a consultant to the Atomic Energy En-ergy Commission Is responsible for the "cluster city" Idea. Such a city, he says, would be a bunch of small cltlei of about 50,000 population each, all grouped together and Interrelated, In-terrelated, and separated from each other by four to five miles of open country. Augur believes that such cities would reduce to a minimum the effect ef-fect of an atomac attack and would also Increase city livabllity. Li k L ;.3g Notes of a New Yorker: The Front Pages: There's no use having your blood pressure boil because the U. S. is dangling moneybags before Tito's eyes in an effort to widen his split with Stalin. In the grimly realistic game of power politics principles are taboo. All that matters is: Who can help us hurt our enemies? That's why Russia and America were once allies. . . . The Democratic Demo-cratic party is now cut up like a jigsaw. But out of the confusing tug-of-ward-healers one thing is clear: The Repubs can't hurt them as much as they've harmed themselves. them-selves. . . How ridiculous can you get? The Soviet government has made it illegal for Russian women wom-en to alter their skirts to "capitalistic "capital-istic lengths!" Truman doesn't seem to have progressed much in four years. In '44 he was secoud choice and still is. Man Under a Shower: There'll be a new third party paper. Name: The National Gazette. Sometime in August. . . . Richest waiter in the world (he's the oldest and walks the fastest, too) is the Stork club's Mr. Johnson. . . . Wanna get rich the easy way? Be in Washington in November and sell tickets to Missouri. Mis-souri. . . . John Edgar Hoover's "pained" expression, intimates know, is from his fear that "war may come tomorrow." Now don't ask him if it is true; he will only deny it, Zanuck would toss this out of any cops-and-robbers script (unbelievable, he'd argue) but it happened the other 3 ayem in New York. Two stickups got away with two small safes from the Cadillac branch on York avenue and while the gendarmes searched the city for them one returned to the scene to retrieve a revolver he left be-bindl be-bindl And got away again. ' otage Entrance: Warner's just signed a Mexican actress named Felipe Gomez to a 10-year contract on the strength of her playing in "Key Largo." She's 102 years old. . . . Dorothy Kirsten, the Met thrush who owns several spectacular spectacu-lar fur coats, is backing one of the upstate New York chinchilla farms. . . . Oscar Homolka of the piercing blue eyes will play the "famed Hungarian playwright" when the new George S. Kaufman-Edna Fer-ber Fer-ber play, "Bravo!" hits Broadway. Janet Fox (niece of co-author Fer-ber) Fer-ber) will be in the cast.' . . . The rich get richer: "Annie Get Your Gun," a wow in New York, San Francisco, Denver, London just to mention a few cities is now the biggest hit in Australia, too. Elsa Maxwell's party game was played again. The query was: "If you had only 10 minutes min-utes to live, and you knew it, how would you spend them?" To which Helen Hayes' husband, hus-band, Charles MacArthur (a wit) seriously said: "I would call my wife on the phone and apologize!" American taxpayers will blow a fuse when they learn Hirohito's annual living allowance is $400,000. . . . Life mag notes Gene Autry's cactus sagas made him a multimillionaire. multi-millionaire. Yet his cowboy-meets-horse-operas seldom are rated good enough for Broadway premieres. . . . Justice William O. Douglas' essay in Reader's Digest uses words for paddles on the Communists. Commu-nists. He believes they can be trounced without using six-shooters. . . . Passing planes will cause your television screen to get blurry. blur-ry. Odd Coincidences: Since Governor Gov-ernor Warren left California he visited the State of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, the Pennsylvania station In New York and the Hotel Pennsylvania ditto. Next stop: Pennsylvania avenue, Washington? Washing-ton? Insiders hear Carole Landis planned suicide by driving her car off a west coast cliff in 1946. . . . A kitten dashing across the path of the car changed her mind. . . . Carole then drove to the home of Dick Haymes' mother (the story goes) and while holding the kitten in her lap Mrs. Haymes and Carole talked out her problem. . . . When she appeared in "The Lady Says Yes" (a Broadway flop), a doctor described Carole as "one of the most sexicological women in and out of show biz." . . . The Landis tragedy proves that the greatest dramas in H'wood are not filmed they're lived. Mary Margaret McBrlde has a way with words. She advised one of Dewey's cabinet: "When you read a speech you say what may have taken months to write. But when you ad lib you speak from your heart what it has taken years to live." ... If you look closely while vievfing "Fort Apache" you will see a shrivelled, apple-cheeked old lady fn the part of Mrs. Gates. She is Mae Marsh who reached stardom In "The Birth of a Nation" Na-tion" 33 years ago. |