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Show WALTER WINCH ELL Flashes Off the Express General Eisenhower's book of memoirs got $700,000 from Double-day, Double-day, confirming a flash which said it would bring 500 Gs. . . . Virginia Leigh (the newly publicized glam-mcr glam-mcr gal) conducts a gossipy column col-umn which is ghosted by her socially so-cially registered mater, Mrs. Frank Delaney. France is beefing about the conditions attached to Uncle Sam's aid gift of 320 million dollars. Would they like to try for the 610 million dollar question? ques-tion? f Tee-Hee Dep't: The piece on Ben Grauer in a national mag says he "wears bow ties exclusively" and then a photo shows him wearing a four-in-hand. . .- . The Luce brain trust has selected the name for its opinion mag, due in the spring. It is "Quest," also the tag for a famed body deodorant! A wealthy Texas oil man bought a string of pearls in Paris and hid it in a secret drawer of his trunk. . . . Arriving Ar-riving in New York he was amazed when customs inspectors immediately pulled the necklace from its hideout. . . . What he doesn't know is that the U. S. officials were tipped by the frenchman who built the secret compartment com-partment for him. . . . He now collects a reward which comes from the heavy fine imposed on the amateur smuggler. smug-gler. Many restaurants which serve steaks today do so merely as a courtesy. cour-tesy. Claim they ackchelly lose money on them. . . . One so-called night club owner really is working for the "real owners" of the joint his chef and three of the waiters. |