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Indentity of the Harvard undergraduate who has become known for crashing debutante parties during the past season was discovered recently after a serious investigation. A. Montague Fitzpatrick refused to reveal his class but agreed to disclose some of his favorite tricks for sneaking into champagne-covered dance floors...
...Fitzpatrick's first plan of attack is to telephone the hotel or house where the party is being held and question some one in authority as to its worth. He explained that his order of interrogations over the telephone was usually: "Well, how does the party look tonight? How many people are there? Are they serving champagne? And caviar? And how do the women look--pretty good...
...party which served both champagne and caviar, Fitzpatrick immediately put on his "must" list. Those without caviar, he said, were doubtful and depended on the answer to other questions; and if no champagne at all was present, Fitz finessed. Never did he phone about a party without giving his full name...
Last week Leo Fitzpatrick, doughty Celtic manager of Detroit's WJR and radio adviser to Father Coughlin switched off Tommy Dorsey's band right in the middle of their swing. The trouble was they were swinging Loch Lomond. Said Manager Fitzpatrick: "It is a sacrilege to make a swing version of a tune sacred to a lot of Scotsmen." Cleveland's WGAR and Beverly Hill's KMPC nodded their heads, pursed their lips and proclaimed a ban on swing versions of eleven old songs, including Comin' Thro' the Rye. At Manhattan's Onyx...
Syndicated features are supplied by the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, whose headquarters is Washington, D. C. For young folk Susan Russell writes "Pen Pals-Intimate Chats with the Catholic Girl." President Fitzpatrick, once a Baltimore Sun sports editor, syndicates his baseball articles under the title "Heads Up!" No matter how it starts, "Heads Up!" always produces a moral homily...