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Jerry Gaghan A A. Makes Thank You Tour ti m . cancelling dates OFFICIAL GRATITUDE: District Attorney Victor Blanc stopped off in Las Vegas on his way back from Honolulu. Accompanied by Al Freeman, formejf|ibcal nitery man now publicity director at IfeSjgands Hotel, the D. A. called on the Las Vegas police, sheriff and FBI headquarters. He thanked every law officer in the Nevada town for their aid in the Rossman murder case in which Raymond- Wilson was. found guilty. . .-, Bandleader Howard Lanin Will plane 103 people from New York to Miami Beach tomorrow. to stage the entertainment for the Lions International Convention. The show, in the Orange Bowl, will headline such people of Shirley Jones, Ray Mid die ton, the Vagabonds, and the De Marco Sisters. Mill ' Eisenberg, the Yellow Cab press agent, has been upped to director of public relations and personnel. He'll handle tlie employment and instruction departments in the new post. TANK TOWN TALK: Paul Winter, executive at the American Express Company's local travel bureau, pulled every wire to get a seat on that doomed Venezuelan airliner. There were no cancellations a'n,d he was turned down. . . . The Cliff Brehners are expecting. He's Mayor Dil- irorth's press secretary. . . . Jay Beneman, account executive with the Feigenbaum & Wermen ad agency, and Baltimore's Susan Silberstein promise to forsake all others Sunday. . . . Wayne Barr, of the city's publicity corps, is back at the job on crutches. Wayne tried to play softball with his son Kit's Cub pack. . .. Jimmy Rumsey, the old time basketball great, is in Germantown 3 Hospital. * fcilSiSife FREE BQAT RIDES: There's a two-hour river trip, 25 miles up and down the Delaware in the State's 60 foot launch, available ,to members of organizations who want to take a look at the port. . . . Capt. Michael Reagoso will take out parties of as many as 15. Contact Ed Walsh, promotion director for the Division of Port Operations, at Pier 4 South, the foot of Chestnut St.- .4/. Samuel Krachmalnick, brother of Jacob, the Philadelphia Orchestra's concert- master, has been signed to conduct Leonard Bernstein's musical version of Voltaire's "Can- dide." .. .Brooks Lawrence, the Cincinnati Reds' pitching ace, is the brother-in-law of Harold Winston, managing editor ^of the Philadelphia Independent. COLUMBIA RECORDS is handling the dis tribution of its own disks here, giving uptlw^ Stuart F. Louchheim Co., after 17 years. Joe Lyons, head of the record department fe&Louch- heim, will be Columbia's local sales Manager. ... Lou Church, of the Blue Note, and Boston's George Wein will appear before Immigration authorities in Washington today to se% work permits for Toshiko, Japan's leading \ femme pianist. Church* wants her for the Note,, of course, and Weiri will present the Japanese j#zz star at his Storyville club and the Newport Festival. . . . Roberta Peters has cancelled her engagement with the Emma Feldman All-Star Concert Series ;in January because she'll "be practicing lullabies. Miss Feldman signed Eljifia? Malbin as a replacement. OUT AND ABOUT: Woody Herman appeared in a bathrobe for his band's Sunday matineS* show at Red Hill Inn. "I never could make these m early gigs," Woody cracked. Incidentally,. "Q?║?? 1, success of the week's engagement witli %h6 Herman Herd will switch the jazz policy at the,,, Jersey club to a full-week basis. Impresario Harvey Husten ;, previously operated only, on Weekends. . . . Although the Celebrity Room has shuttered for the hot weather, the splashing in the Aquarium Lounge (upstairs) continues all I this week. . . J The demand for girls never lessens. Lee Henderson has just installed chorus lines in the Sans Souci (Jersey) and the new 21 Club, at Florida-^Ave. and the Boardwalk. TRANS-ATLANTIC CALL came for Skinny D'Amato at Atrajitic City's 500 Club early the other morning, Frank Sinatra, phoning from Madrid. It was 11 a.m. in Spain and Frankje said he was ";pnely" and wanted to talk. D'Amato asked the singer to stop off at the shore when he returned to this country. Yesterday Skinny received a cable from Sinatra saying he'd be in Atlantic City, Friday, Aug. 24, and to keep the weekend ??pen. .... Joseph Myrow, the 6th and Ritner Sts. songwriter who has been^a Hollywood fixture the last decade, has finally caught up with another South Philly boy from the same neighborhood. Myrow is writing the music (lyrics by Mack Gordon) for the Eddie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds film, "Bundle of. Joy." LITTLE ROCK, ARK. GAZETTES 'Circ. D. 93,274'^^(03.5^7 JUN5 I$55 Elegance and Luxury Markthe Rapid Growth of Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nev., is one of nation's fastest growing towns. 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