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Official Backer. In Warrenton, Ore., Mayor F. M. Wilson stepped on the gas, shot backwards into a store, stopped in front of a clerk's desk, turned inquiringly to his fellow passenger, who politely refused His Honor a driver's license...
Peter Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...
...Italian paper in New York, wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy little column in 1939 aroused three young members of the Warrenton, Va., horsy set, who abducted "Ghighi" Cassini from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered him on a lonely road. He took refuge in the Warrenton home of one Major Austin McDonnell. Next year, when he became a U.S. citizen, Cassini married the Major's daughter, "Bootsie...
Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Married. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 35, ex-Navy lieutenant, wavy-haired heir to one-quarter of the Chrysler motor millions, lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk...