THE LYONS DEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080059-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: September 8, 1952
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Lyons Den
By Leonard Lyons--,---
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Paul Hoffman is leaving the. Eisenhower campaign quarters
and returning to his Pasadena home. He opposes the terms- of the
General's reconciliation with the Taft and Dirksen groups and the
effect it will have on independent voters. .. Gen. MacArthur would
make a campaign speech if asked to do so, by Eisenhower. .41e feels
Dewey is the barrier to this . . . The 'Big-Fish-Who-Got-Away,'"
, referred to by Judge Samuiel Leibowitz last week?in pronmurjag
sentence in the police-boolsie tieup=still is high on the municipal
payroll. .He will be named, in the Grand Jury's presentment which
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? will be released after Labor Day. ,
Gypsy Rose Lee'S-idne-night stands through Europe have
netted her over Iralf -a million 'dollars. . She's On her -way hOme
with the loot now ? . . The Charles Chaplins will be'iri Ni.4Y. this
week. To help promote his new film, "Limelighr Chaplin has
approved women's page interviews with his wife; , for the'-'first
time since their marriage . . . Sen. Ferguson camp N. -Vast
night for Senate subcommittee ,hearings on Communist influence
in our schools. The first Witness at the Foley Sq. hearings 0111 be
an ex-Red teacher :. . At his Copa opening Joe E..I.esriraised a
drink and proposed a toast to Sir Cedric Hardwieke: =To the ?Em-
pire." Hardwickeq.esponded: "To the Empire." Thenhorse nlay9r
Lewis continued: "Yes, to Empire and Hialeah, Saratog'etand?
Tropical Park." -
Beatdsley Ruml, head of -the finance committee, for Steven-,
All
son's ' calupaign; went to Springfield to present th Und-raising
program, he wrote. Col. Jack Aryey and the ot Stevenson
mentors told him it Was a fine. program,,:,,but . would require six
months of work?and there are only eight weeks of campaigning
left. . . On the fiiiiittlinick tot. N. Y. guild wrote his' solution of
' the problem of jammilirAikitioriths' wOrk into eight weeks: "Six
months?that's 25 weeks plus* vacation. Twenty-five weeks, at ?40
hours a week?that's 1,000 work-hours. -Rove makelt a; 125 wak-
i hours per week, for eight weeks, that's 1,064 hour' All we have
i to do, therefore, is work about 18 hours each day, for eight weeks,
thus producing 1,000 work-hours or the equivalent of six, months
, work." .. , .
President Truman's plans, after leaving the White House, in-
clude a flight around the world, first crossing the Pacific to Japan,
' then the Near East?and Israel, where he'll spend the Passover
, holidays at Kfar Truman, the kibbutz named in his honor .
' Katharine Cornell's tour in "The Constant Wife" will open at y
Ford's Theater in Baltimore Oct. 13. She'll visit 75 cities .before
ending the tour in the spring ... A hat check girl Who worked at t
the Alibi Club is the-latest'one to blow-a whistle at Mickey Jelke ?
. . . The "For Sale" sin on .Millrose Island in the East River has
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been moved. The city will convert it into a playground.
Robert Capa, the cameraman who covered the wars in Spain, .
China and Europe, now is president of a cooperative company of ,
, cameramen Who work out of Paris under their corporate name, .1
? Magnum. They're all top men and therefore have - peculiarities 1
. . . Capa prefeis his colleagUento have no attaehments, ,so that
' they can be d'ffe,..to fulfill uSaignments .at any hour iii any place ,
, of the worlds' He recently aaVgned ;One ofibis associate :St to do a ,
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,,gentaif.ate.r..Begiallooidiniammeceived a memo requesting a daY ,
off for one of his aides, Capt. Ken Gininger of Prentice-Hall: The
memo explained that Capt. Gininger wanted the day off so that
he could be married. Gen. Smith's replying memo was: "Does he
have to do it on our time?" . . . Jose Ferrer, who produced and
directed,"Stalag 17" in N. Y., sent for one of the authors to join
him in 'Paris and make revisions, of the play for the London run
... One of?.Marilyn Monroe's friends who heard of Joe DiMaggio's
boast that :Marilyn is a good cook, , sampled the cooking
of the dazzling blond, who served the dishes herself. "If you're a
man, and not blindfolded, Marilyn can cook," was the report: "But
if yotere,blindfolded, or a woinanshe can't." ?
The "Magic Carpet to ? Mecca" project," the transporting of ,
Moslem pilgrims bOiAmerican Air Force. planes in the Middle
East,' won immeasurable good will for the nation. The request
forzthe use of the planes cane front the State Dept. to the Secre-
ttiry Of?Defente. ,The /equest 'arrived late in the afternoon, and'
chanced to be placed on the 'desk of Asst. Secretary of Defense
Anna Rosenberg , When. Mrs. Rosenberg was appointed to her
poSt,.strenuous oppcisition, to her was voiced by the Arah?League'
. . Mrs: 'Rosenbergytead the 'request for the Magic Carpet to
Mecca, and 1.50iiinutes she. had Secretary Finletterls
proval of the pi-ojed4;-4..-t(i;
,Roberta,Peters,,and"her.ex-htisband, Robert -Merrill, will both
sing inr"Rigoletto"'? at'*_?,Met, Merrill 's first opera of the new
season . inciaentally,wears ;gold ckiff-links?with an un-
usual design,-.-the,proscenium arch ut the They were Made
13 the- ,yvho ,once- wa$ jeweler He just
mittee IS ?no,
reopen it ,s,pon#itha.
of "Seeds" TxeSsi),A.
Rep. Donal ja. oni?rpoti
Un-American ATti,vi
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'tor Heifetz McCarran Com.'
ith the, Owen Lattimore ease, and may
vir Witness .'. VietOr',Lasky, co-author
cai wedding-gift jest, Week from;
1$$;.of-rthe...heaAingsiof 'the ll
omrnittee. The ?love-happy. groom dei
serves an Oscar4far the Y1/4)ayhe`beamed: "Just what We wanted."
Only an ili&ss?which proved fatal eVei could Mike Gertrh
Lawrence'!ifi1,04 performance To her friend, Constance
pouter, fell the task:inf understudying her anirgiSing on in tier
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place in "ftre'sKing And I"--adifficult 1? hecaiRe the star was
a unique one ant*.'none could4ring 1-43 a perfornfirdeelhe quality
she gave it ... Moss Hart once auditioned an actress who claimed,
" h.?," 1Vric rawrence in "Susan and God.' 'I know
@ 50-Yr 2014/03/20 : you were an understudy in'Susan and
God,' you must've been understudying for God."
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