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• William P. Buckner made news again last ,week — when an ex-FBI. agent had to quit his Job with the State . Ck)mniission I of Investigation for having asso-I dated with Buckner. He first ! made news before the war when he !is convicted in a Philippine bond fraud case. He later received one of those; pardons given to all GIs who'd served Honorably. "But what good's a pardon," said Buckner, "if the press still calls you an ex-con?"
Buckner was one of the most attractive .voung men ever to travel the cafe ciruit. He married
and was divorced from Adelaide Moffett. of the Standard Oil family. He once was sent by his associates to Holl>-wood to interest Loretta; Young in "investing." Buckner finally sought the money elsewhere, because in his persuit of Rliss Young he became emotionally involved — and the star, in fact, was ready to make him her agent.
He always had promotion schemes. He pleaded guilty to running a crap game at a charity party in a Park Av.' penthouse. He next tried a gambling venture in the Virgin Islands, where he
By LEONARD LYONS
RiCKOVER TO STAY
WASHINGTON. (CJN) - Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover the Polish-bom son of a Jewish tay-lor and father of the nuclear submarine, will be kept on active service even after he reaches nonnal retirement age in'a year. Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally said. •
Admiral Rickover; a pioneer in developing nuclear submarines, was promoted from captain to flag rank in 1953 only aft«r high civiliim officials in the Navy De-i part men t and members of Con-
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gress intervened. Admiral Rickover had been bypassed twice by a Navy promotion board and thus would have been retired in Jmie, 1953.
Mr. Connally said that he had requested Admiral Rickover to stay on and that the admiral had agreed.
approached the chief of police with a deal to set up some casinos there. The chief said; "Why come to me? Gambling is Illegal here." And Buckner replied: "If it were legal, would I have to be coming to you?"
• Adiai Stevenson and Walter lippmann attended the premiere of "Once There Was a Russian".
• Sally Anne Howesr- who played "My Pair Lady," has an offer from Alfred Hitchcock for a role ir which she'd age 25 years during the half-hour TV program. It would show her first at 25. "The trouble is," said -Miss Howes, "will audiences realize I'm 25 and made up to look 50, or will they think — Heaven forbid — that, I'm 50 and made up to look 25?"
• lycontj-ne Price, who'll open the Met .season next year in "The Girl of the Golden West." wiir make an RCA album of her major operatic arias...
• JEAN COCTEAU, the painter-poet-playwright, was at a party recently with Edwige Feuillere, who is starring in a Cocleau play. The actress complained to him: "Tour plays are so difficult to act. They kill the actors".. "Alas," replied Cocteau. "not often enough."
I A woman going to Italy for the first time asked Adam Gim-bel for advice. Gimbel told her: "The best way for a pretty
girl to have a good time in Italy is to believe everything that every Italian tells her".;.. Gim-bel's wife Sophie — the designer at Saks 5th Ave. — received a complaint from a short, stout woman: "How is it that although I wear your gowns I don't look Ifke you?"— Sophie replied: "Designers are not God." -
• Michele Morgan has agreed to return to-.the Paris stage after a 25-year absence, but on condition that: the cjltics not be invited before herTiinth perfo.r-maH«e=. Don Hoak, the Pirates' star, visited the Foiir Seasons, where the waiter asked on which side ' of the poo] he wanted to sit. Hoak said: "The third base side." '
• The new American Hotel in New York will have unusual
'arrangements for its Presidential Suite. The President will be able to drive his car directly into an elevator going up to his suite .. Jackie Gleason said about his "coffee" drinking during his TV shows: "My shows aren't rated by points or applause, but by a dmnkometer".., Gleason's drinking companion. Joe E. Lewis, reported that he went to a football game but left before the end of the first fifth.
Maysa Matarazzo. the Brasil-iaii singer, who'll return to the Blue Angel next month, said it's ' easy for a foreign star to become '
/known in New York: "All you do is keep yor accent, lose your passport, lower your neokline and raise your voice."
• Charles Korvin was in Tangier making an Interpol movie; While driving to location he noticed a Jeweler's sign bearing the name of a boyhood, friend of his -from Budapest. Korvin phoned the man, who answered his questions nervously, but then confirmed his identity. "This .Is Geza," said Korvin, giving his real name. Geza Kaiser. They had an immediate riunion — and the jeweler said he'd felt long before that Geza Kaiser hid become Charles Korvin.
It was a Gibraltar, he said, in 1942, that he saw Korvin in a movie, "Enter Arsene Lupin." The other Hungarians there recognized him, too. "And," said the jeweler, "you were terrible in it."
•^5ack Carter, the comic, will appear In the Warner Bros, film "Crackerjack Marin?" ...In the movie "The Hustler," producer Leonard Sillman will play the role of a rich Southern sportsman. Sillman is permitting his town house to be used for the
interior shots...... Joshua Logan
finished cutting his film "Fanny" last Friday. Saturday he flew to Barbados to -confer with Oliver Messel. the designer, about a stage and screen project.
• At their 50th wedding anniversary party, Tom May, head of the New York department .store chain paid tribute to his wife. Anita. Behind very successful man, he said, there always is a woman. "And today I'm a millionaire," he said. "When I married her. I was a multi-millionaire." Mrs. May said of the lively
party: ;
"To enjoy a golden', wedding yoii should be 30 years old."
• Phil Silvers, an avid soft> ballplayar, already, has started organizing the "Do Re Mi" entry in the Broadway league_. Elaine May, of Nichols .& May, Insists that her fabulous career, as a comedienne is an accident. She always wanted to be a writer, .and has just completed the play .on which she's worked for a year... Mrs. Denny Slater Is having rSalvator Dall paint the cast encircling her broken right arm. This will be Dali's first round canvas. .' ,
• Zsa Zsa Gabor saw the revue "Show Girl", and then went backstage to visit Carol Ch'annlng and Jules Munshin. She~~noticed a huge pitcher standing on a bureau of Miss Channing's dressing room, and asked what was In It... "Water," said Miss Channing ...."Vauter?" grimaced the champagne-fed Gabor. "Dolllnk. arp you expecting a fire?"
• A few months ago 22-year old .ludy Rutherford worked a.*^ the secretary of Michael Shurt leff. casting director for producer David Merrick. Shurtleff wrote a play, "Call Me by My Rightful Name." It was produced by his ex-secretary, Miss Rutherford at One Sheridan Square, and received fine notices... The pro ducer was asked if she'd notlc ed any change in her relationship with her ex-employer now that the show is a hit.
When I was his secretary I called him Mike and he called me Miss Rutherford," she said. "Now that I'm his producer he calls me Judy and I call him Mr. Shurtleff."
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