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Tht Lyons Den*Posers■by Leonard LyomAlter Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright testified as a defense witness in the Provoo treason trial last week., photographers and newsreel cameramen waited for him outside the courthouse. The attorneys and attendants knew that whoever would be at his sjde wben the general emerged would get his picture in the papers and newsreels. . . . There was a rush as soon as Wainwrightstepped through, and She guards held the doors. George Plotkin, co-counsel lor the defense, who had examined Wainwright, was nowhere in sight. “Your big moment,” said his wile, later, and where were you?” , , , The lawyer told her: I was trapped in the revolving door.”Mao, who fletl to Mexico with $25,000,000 of Nationalist China funds, has a price on his head. A New Yorker has been given the assignment of bringing Mao to Formosa, dead or alive —and payment only on delivery. . . , John Murray Anderson, the director, phoned Leonard Sillman, producer of “New Faces,” and sighed: “Com! pared to Bette Davis, you’re a sedative” , . . Tony Beauchamp flew to N. Y, lor two days, just to see his wife, Sarah Churchill,. in her TV premiere. He .flew right back 10 London to start shooting 13 TV films. . , . Gen, Wainwright’s governmeift fee for testifying was $!} plus expenses to and from Texas.GEN. WAINWRIGHTGen, Buck Lanham, Hemingway hero now at SHAPE, will recuperate more quickly from his illness when he learns of his new promotion, . . . Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the doomed atom-bomb spies, have had six applications lor stay of execution in the past- three weeks. All were turned down. Asst. U. S. Atty. Jim Kilslieim-or was the government attar-new who successful opposed (hem each time. . . . Margaret Truman's appearance on Milton Berle’s TV program, canceled last week because of her grandmother’s death, probably will lake place on -Jan. 6. Frank Sinatra will co-star on that program. and fly bark from Africa for it.Faye Emerson and Skiieh Henderson delayed their ’ Korean trip for a few days, to enlarge their unit and arrange to be away longer. . . . The producers of Time Out for Ginger'’ are turning aside all movie offers, because of the vast TV possibilities, An adaptation into a TV series maymean a long-term income bigger than any movie sale couid produce. . . . Jackie Miles, at the Copa, says lie has a complex about story telling, because usually he's on the listening side: “I’m the guy who always says ‘no kiddin' ” , , . . At Shor's Granfland Rice said he asked Jack Quinn, the veteran pitcher, what made him able to pitch for 26 years Quinn explained: A wife and six kids.”Queen Elizabeth's new yacht will be named in honor of her late father. The vessel, to be launched in April, is unsiltk-able. , . , “Porgy ’n* Bess” probably will be installed at the Ziegfekl Theater after its current European tour is over, ,,. At the Sylvania Awards dinner Desi Arnaz. who won a prize for “I Love Lucy. said if was appropriate that he should receive a prize of three clocks. l-Ie made his American debut introducing I Didn't Know What Time It Was” in the musical, “Follow the girls” . . . Jean Pierre Aumont's next play in' r-aris is an adaptation of Time Has Us.” He's directing and playing dual roles.Secretary of Labor Tobin will make his farewell address at a Manhattan Center rally Dec, 21, called to protect Czech anti-Semitic purges. AFL and CIO leaders, together with exiled Czechs, will speak. The Voice of America will beam it abroad.. . , Rila Hayworth, who returns to N. Y., will be approached by the Hakim Bros, about doing a film biography'' of Isadora Duncan. . . . Clen-. denin Ryan says that the water front story now being exposed by the State Crime Commis-' Sion was told by him to the grand jury which subpenaed him a few years ago, but nothing had been done about it. „. . The ailing chaplain at Danner-inora Prison. Father Hyland, is still soliciting contributions for the prison's Christmas fund.The TV networks have stockpiles of kinescopes which can’t be used until the courts determine whether or qot (hey can be deemed movies. These kinescopes arc of telecasts of plays whose movie rights were sold to Hollywood studios. If * kinescope is a movie, the film studios will have a right to stop their being shown. • . . Tom Coleman, the Wisconsin Industrialist, could have had a Cabinet post. He turned it down because he said he once vowed never to hold public office. . .. The “Clemency Train” to Sing Sing, to picket In behalf of the Rosenborgs, was postponed so that the participants could be screened.The TJSO still is $5,000,000 short of its goal in this year’s drive. . . . Ray Bolger will perform Peter and the Wolf” at Yeshiva University’s Scholarship dinner at the Waldorf.
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Independent Long Beach
Long Beach, California, US
Sat, Dec 20, 1952
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