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Daily News from New York, New York • 108

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i' a OH By ED SULLIVAN Dy HEDDA HOPPER Secretary, Africa, SpeaU Dear Boss Homers in World Series are hardly any novelty to hard-hitting Duke Snider. Previous to yesterday's game, he'd belted nine Series circuit clouts, all against Yankee pitching. In 1952, Snider hit four, two of 'em in the sixth game. He again hit four in the 1955 Series, two in the fifth game and a single homer in the fourth game. Babe Ruth hit 15 Series homers.

Sucre of "Flower Drum Sonic" on Broadway inspiied Milton Sperling to produce "Uiver'a Point." by the same author, as a motion picture for Warner, C. V. Lec'a book's locale is Monterey, San Francisco aniJ Hawaii, and Sperling wants Dean Martin. Fdward G. Ki.bi-.oti and Nobu McCarthy for it.

Injtemar Johansson has aet this town on it ear. By ROBERT SYLVESTER The Doffed Lines I bought one of those sensible-type new cars. The motor is in the front, where it belongs, and the payment is in arrears, where it belongs. That new film. "The Man Who I'nderstood must be science fiction.

You gotta say one thing about that kid who went on a $10,000 credit -card binge. He wasn't acting like an ordinary I). Funny thing. Only the other day somebody was asking me what Jack P.arry and Dan Fnright are doing. I know I'm cracking up.

1 went to sleep with the TV aet on last night and thought Thelonius Monk playing with Lawrence Welti's orchestra. Maybe those new cigareta that have no tabacro are for us guya with lighters that don't have fluid. Koger Price figures that next summer they ran call that TV show "What Makes Sammy We've got a pretty progressive kid on my block. He's already stripped a I960 car. That must have been close type casting for the TV "Strawberry Blonde." Strawberry blonde Janet Blair got the lead.

Why don't those TV investigators investigate my old lady? She knows all the answers before I even get to ask them. 1 find Julie Newmar pretty stupe-fyin' even when she isn't playing Stupefyin' Jones in the "L'il Abner" film. So Northeast Airlines will be catered by Lindy's. Next they'll be offering de-lox tickets. Hobby Colt has a friend who wants to be a beatnik but his landlord won't take the bathtub out of it r' 1 Lei and 1 ay-ward tells me that Marion Marlowe is a big hit in the Rodgera Ham merstein "Sound of Music," starring Mary Martin.

The late Harry Cohn wanted Jackie Gleason for the Mayor Cur ley role in "The Last Hurrah," but then turned him down on the grounds that because the public had Dinah Shore (cot more mail about him than any star who has ever appeared on her show. Moat of it's from Minnesota. After he saw himself on TV he told her: "I do the show any time you want. I quit anything to come, to you." The other day Ingemar table-hopped at 21 to tell Miiko Taka i recalled meeting her at 4 i Babe Rutk Marion Marlowe Nobs McCarthy Miiko T.ka seen Gleason for free on TV, they wouldn't pay to see him at the box office. Gleason jammed them in when "Take Me Along" played Boston and is jamming them in again in Philadelphia with Walter Pidgeon.

So he would have been a box office riot in the movies, where admissions are much lower. e'er 'te. Because Seagram's is supposed to have put up $1,000,000 for the "Four Seasons" restaurant in its building, a group of N. Y. restaurant owners are urging all other restaurant owners to cancel Seagram liquor products.

Their argument is that the liquor company has financed an opposition restaurant. WOR's F.d and Pegeen Fitzgerald owe their marriage to three performing bears. Ed, from Troy, N. was working as a Pantages Theatre publicity man in Portland. Oregon, where a local eyeful, Pegeen, was advertising manager for the Frank Company and doing a daily radio show from the store.

She called the Pantages Theatre and asked if they could send over one of the acts on the bill for her radio show. She was horrified when three bears arrived with the trainer. In high 'dudgeon, she called the Pantages office to protest the idiocy of anyone who'd send three bears. "I'm the idiot." replied the young fellow on the other end of phone. "Instead of apologizing, let nie take you to dinner." That was in lf-'H and they have been married since This 19." World Series will go down in baseball history as a monument to the commercialism of big leairue baseball.

Thi Los Angeles Coliseum was the shabbiest excuse for a Series nite that lasehall ever has tolerated but nobody in baseball protested, including the players, who are iust as grcetv as the owners. Just imagine the Davis Cup finals being played on a tennis court at Van Coitlandt Park: a U. S. Open leing played on a third-rate golf course or the Olympics being held on some playground? The much-abtisel Walter O'Malley is no worse than his big league colleagues. In big league baseball, the only sentimental note is sounded by the fans.

i a Kuropean premiere of "Sayonara." She is an item these days with the Karl of llardwick. The Maharanee and Maharajah of Jaipur recently Rave a cocktail party for them. Miiko will he in Hollywood soon to take more drama lessons. Dinah is busy taping the Philippine folk ballet, now appearing at the Winter Garden, and signing talent for her new shows. One of 'the shows will have .100 people from seven countries.

She'll have an all French show next month with the great psintomimist Marcel Marceau ami Art Buehwald. Waffs Covered With Art Objects Met Brig. Gen. Tom McCarthy and his wife, Pat. and Kelman Morin, who won tho Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in on the Little Rock Stories.

Later the McCarthys ami 1 went to the Morin apartment for a nightcap. Dorothy Liebes, Morin's brilliant wife and a former San Franciscan, was in Miami, but I enjoyed seeing their fantastic but beautiful apartment where lh walls, J- feet high, are covered with art bjects they've gathered from all over the world. I asked Morin why he wasn't in I'ulrn Springs playing golf with Ike. He told me: "I've followed the President on his recent tiip to Europe and trailed Mr. K.

all over America, and I've hail it." He looks so much like Ik he could double fur him. Chicago wants me to fly there to present their Sarah S'ulilons annual for best actress of the year Nov. B. It's difficult to believe Mario Lans of the wonderful voice is gone. Supor-Duper In Every Way Ito Russell in top form for TV spec, which went by like an express train fast, furious and expertly written and acted by top talent.

I was happy to see William S. Hurt's face back on the screen, even though it was UN TV. The supper party on the Paramount stave after "Pillow Talk" was quite fancy, (iloria Sinmin has her hair cut short and is letting it go gray. She looked perfectly lovely and not a day over Rock Hudson and Tallulah Hankhead made an interesting couple. Met Walter Moving at Francis Kellogg'a and learned how be bought the final stock in Tiffany's owned by a New Fnglumler.

He paid her a visit and charmed it away from her. They now call him Mr. 57th St. Sad Journey for Brod Crawford llrod Crawford came here from London for his mot tier's funeral. He's worried about his father who's very frail and still In shock over his wife's passing.

Brod returns to Kngland the end of this week but will be back here the first of the year to do another TV series. He tells me his 12-year-old son, Kim. is attending school in France and learning languages. When I asked him if he's about to commit matrimony again he said: "No. And in my romances I'm walking slower i lies days." The James Savoys are back from their medieval castle near Pome.

Do wish someone would put his story on stage or screen. Julie Newmar, Jackie Gleaton and Janet Blair the apartment. A Martian landed at Jackie (Reason's futuristic new home in Pcekskill but before he could say anything Gleason barked at him: "And you'll have the same!" Big crisis in the ad agencies. They've run out of short names for detergents. Overheard at Mirko's: "I know the perfect award for Dr.

Joyce Brothers. A reclining Emmy, Tommy l.eonetti thinks Casey Stengel was smart, signing for another year. Case could never have taken those long banker's hours. They're working hard on a new wonder drug for the Presidential elections. Called acreptomyrin.

I trust our street gangs will call a truce for the week of Nov. 22. It's Latin American Week. Kill Shipley got raught in a local traffic marmalade. It was too thick to be a jam.

So 277,000 saw the World Series in Los Angeles. That's more press agents than Arthur Al Cooper and Joe Brady have. Overheard at the Charles "Wagner for Vice President? Why. couldn't even keep the World Series in New The TV Bat Masterson and the TV "Maverick" had trouble beating each other to the draw for the check at Manny Wolf's. tiot a split second? Take a peek at that Nancy Kovack on "Beat The Phyllis Oilier watched a patron spiralling down the stair at Bon Soir.

Only problem was, the stairs are straight. There were enough ballplayers at I tone's the other night to give that Continental League a good start. I wanted to are that new anew, "The Power of Darkness," but on second thought sent my tickets to Con Fd. George Weinger of the Diplomat got a wonderful buy on a used hi-fi. It was formerly owned by a little old lady who'f hard of hearing.

My Italian barber was touched by the John Barry-more-Cara Williams reconciliation. "She's a Cara for he thinks. Now that Mrs. F.D.R. is teaching school and Churchill ia running for u.Tice, Jim Downey wonders why Grandma Moses is wasting her time.

A frigid silence in my house usually means I'll have to thaw my own dinner. Klavan and Finch played a new beatnik record on a torntable. What between cha cha exhibitions ia the Aqueduct press box and dates with pretty newsgal Juanita Bernaski, Costy ('Bras is beginning 'to look a little like George Van Mansbach of the Beau Brummel rode one of those new 1KT trains and thinks what they need mostly is new passengers. The Concord is looking for a Chinese comedian who can do a funny American waiter Ricky Lane knows psychiatrist who believes in socialized medicine. He gets on the couch with you.

How can the Immigration Service call a V-girl getting $100 a call an "undesirable alien?" Last time I was with Mario Lanza in Rome, he said: "Mama mia, I'm homesick" (MCA)-Stein a grandpa. The Bill vanden Heuvels (Jean Stein) named her Katrina Mary Coolidge, of White House clan, weds Bob Stark Oct. .11 Stanley Shapiro, who scripted "Pillow Talk." and Judi Meredith blazing. Haile Selassie's daughter-in-law, Princess Sarah, a student nurse at F.dinbuigh Royal Infirmary. After training, she'll apply her knowledge in Ethiopia.

The Curtis Hoods expecting. Ukulele Ike and Audrey Perlow plotting a Christmas wedding Burt (Rivertoat) Reynolds and Lori Nelson to wed Lee (MCA) Arons weds Irwin Rothledder Nov4 James Stroock hospitalized. Add Click: Dorothy Donergan'a Capitol album, "Donnybrook." Mary Martin'a dance director, Joe Layton, and Kvelyn Russell honeymooning. Les Paul and Mary Ford named the baby Robert. "World of Suxie Wong" made profit on first ann'y.

Navy league honoring Adm. Arthur Radford. Waldorf. Oct. 2K.

"My Daughter, Maria Callas" by her mother, in book form soon. Sam Spiegel's ex, Lynn Raggett, learning to walk all over again. Joan Caul-field stork due in mid-month. Joi Lansing, in Bob Cummings' show, to marry Stan Todd. Incidentally, you forgot to include Lindy's Le VaJois, Voisin among top N.

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