The News And Views

WALTER WINCHELL

Martha ("Meet The Press") Rountree, who married J. Presbrey at Tucson last Wednesday, better stop the presses! The merger isn't recognized in N. Y. State and the ex-Mrs. Presbrey has an action pending here to debunk his Juarez quickie . . . The Red Skeletons completely fooled the untrumor-spreaders . . . Nancy Sinatra and Peter Lawford mean every word of it . . . Jack Dempsey is trying to talk daughter Joan out of her exciting law student crush . . . Olivia DeHavilland has intimates wondering why she is waiting until September to see a judge . . . Sen. Brien McMahon a candidate for the Presidency, suddenly stricken . . . Robert Taylor, the fieldplayer, and Ursula Thies, the German Heddy LaMarr, are making mit de dialect Ach' . . . Washington Postmarks: The Dept of Justice will soon hit three top distillers with antitrust papyrus . . . The inside on the I. B. Mayer-Gen. Julius Klein split-up is being studied by Washington officials . . . The General allegedly had a bill put through Congress which saved Mayer a hefty tax bite . . . Greatest Compliment Dept. Every top bigot in the land is against Eisenhower. They have flooded the Nation with the most scurrilous and counterfeit stuff about him since they defeated Al Smith in '28 . . . The FCC is eyeing the disc-jockey racket: Alleged payoffs for plugging tunes into clicks. Stations face loss of license, etc . . . U. S. Attorneys in the 48 States are busy filling out questionnaires on the conduct of their personal lives, etc. Must be on McGranery's desk by July 1st . . . One of Averell Harriman's campaign mgrs will be charged with playing footsy with two commies . . . Ed Flynn's choice for Prez is Truman . . . Suggested new Eisenhower button "Don't Be Taft-Safe!" . . . Brenda Frazier (Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly) is the victim of "nerves" after breaking from Italian millionaire Piero Mele . . . The Mexican President's son slugged it out 'over some Babe' in a Movietown ginmill . . . The Quakers have hired a publicist . . . Here's a How-deedoo Of the 1942 debs - an even dozen are now press agents . . . The Cables: Victoria Eugenia, 64, widow of the King of Spain (Alfonso) was operated on for appendicitis at Lausanne, Switzerland . . . DeGasperi's daughter Lucia is now Sister Mary Lucy. Took the veil in Rome last week . . . Nita Ince, 24, daughter of Sir Godfrey Ince (permanent secretary to Britain's Ministry of Labor) is en route to the Canadian Rockies to be a waitress . . . It Figures Dept.: Doris Duke's ex-husband dwells on a Paris street named Belchasse, means 'good hunting' . . . Democratic ladies are gleefully knifing Kefauver. In desperation he has turned to New York left-wingers for help . . . Police Comm. Monaghan's friends hope he inherits Judge Wallace's bench when he retires this year. But DeSapio's choice is City Court Justice McGiven . . . Dr. Borislav Borcic, the medical adviser, and Helen Glassey, U. N. mission chief to Yugoslavia, have united in marriage . . . One of Harper's Bazaar editors is going to the Virgin Islands to demarry her groom . . . It's a girl (Cathy Lynn) at Dr.'s Hosp. for the Ronald Saypols. Pop's the son of the Supreme Court Justice. Mother's family make the Lionel trains . . . Two weeks ago we tipped the U. N. that one of its officials (initial'd E. W.) was a former top Red. Saturday's gazettes reported that the U. N. fired Eugene Wallach for refusing to answer the charge that he was formerly a Commie . . . The U. N. is welcome to another tip: Get rid of a high official there who has a background of Red connections . . . Initials: A. V. T. . . . Noah Dietrich (he's H. Hughes veep) and Janis Carter will merge as soon as he gets the decree . . . She's trousseau-shopping here now . . . Real estaters hear the Plaza Hotel will make way for an office edifice 5 years hence . . . Midtowners are distributing pornographic postcard photos of two notorious Hollywood people. Allegedly the photo that suddenly stopped her planned divorce charges a few months ago . . . The Civil Rights Congress (which coddles Reds, Pinks and Punks) is in financial difficulty. The staff unpaid for several weeks . . . Maryland communists are being asked to give a week's wages to help the defense fund of the convicted leaders . . . The Herald Trib is looking for a racetrack handicapper . . . Tom Hormel of the meat fortune thinks starlet Janice Rule is the cutest lil lamb chop . . . Ruth Woods, the dollink, is a devastating caricaturist. Celebrities should see what she does to them on menus and tablecloths . . . Gendarmes are trying to get a line on a tall, good-looking, slim youngster. He's tossing around $100 tips like a guy who doesn't pay taxes . . . Stickmen will tell you there isn't a straight gambling house anywhere in Cuba . . . They are looking for a tall blond man as Larry Kaye's accomplice in the Shirley Carmel gem heist . . . A new price war (bigger than last summer's) may soon erupt in the top stores . . . Teevy panic has hit Young & Rubicam's staff. A dozen teevy men bounced . . . Jackie Loughery (Miss New York in the Miss Universe pageant) has been asked for, sorry. Her guy is Guy Mitchell, the singer . . . Oh, the Poor Man! One of Nat (King) Cole's aides made such a mistake! Put a letter to his sweetheart in an envelope addressed to his wife! . . . Help, po-leece, murdah-hhhhhh! . . . Giant squids or octopuses sometimes reach a total length of 50 feet.