| Show ALONG ALONG BROADWAY WITH WIN WINCHELL HELL ar ar Reporter Tells New Sagas of News Guild Gui Id Love Letter Leffer to a Columnist IP The author of today's column is Josef Israels II who represented rep rep- resented the New York Times in Ethiopia recently r Dear Walter The love letters columns from newspapermen newspaper- newspaper men o of the last few weeks naturally brought back a few reminiscences of comparatively recent years in the newspaper business gjOne On One thing I want to point out is that all the great exploits of newspaper men were not in the Richard Harding Davis days There are still plenty of titans in the he profession But perhaps it is rt 1 co th fbi the r 5 inn has has' so large larne that so few of them rt thc ii tho personal exploitation I c ch h the Richard Harding Devises of a former newspaper generation thrived upon Today's I editors if the they could get the time oft aft from answering the telephone md nd throwing away releases from press press agents like Jilee myself could t telL ll lots of modern stories stories some some Just amusing some sonic brave and courageous either physically or journalistically j The profession ta as' asa a whole still sun shows in a very great measure all the infinite re- re j and inventive ca capacity capacity ca- ca city which has made American reporting the best in tho world It WAn An old editor of or mine always told me a journalist was a reporter reporter re- re porter orter with a cane and spats but theres thires still a lot of swell journalism journal- journal lam ism being done by just plain re- re It is true that theres there's nothing nothIng older than yesterdays yesterday's I newspaper and beats sta stay hot at b best st only a few hours But the tho comforting morting thing is that there is is- newer than today's newspaper newspaper newspaper news- news f paper and that there are always alwa'S aplenty lenty of tomorrows Pain Ethiopia Ethiopia when Haile Selassie Selas Selas- Me sie le suddenly flew to the front and the censorship was clamped down tight the AP A and UP were okay because because they supply their foreign inen en with plain language codes which make it possible to get things oC off without discovery But some some of the I other boys bos were stuck They knew their bosses would be tearing their hair when the UP and AP messages came carne through That is why one man r bled Principal eight ball Fronted this morning And an- an King flipped front front- wards While still another said See Beaverbrook's morning mornin Oct October Oc- Oc t tober ber page six column two confirm it LYou YOU ought tc to toi be able to interpret interpret interpret inter inter- pret tho the first two What tho the last ono lone ono means is to look on a certain age and in Lord Beaverbrook's Beaver- Beaver brooks brook's Lond London n Daily Express and there to find a n. report that the emperor would soon fly to the front front w. w I There There are interesting stories which v were never sufficiently I rE E b behind hind two re recent ent I Pulitzer prizes s. s The exploit of Burko Burke Miller who because belc be- be lc cause use he ho was so little was able to Cr crawl wl Into Floyd Collins Collins' Kenti Ken- Ken ti cave cavo t to bring the pr prisoner food tood and interview inter him got a a. Pulitzer award Skeets as ho he known got a Il job jobo o on paper the New York World orId But they said ho he could not write and an a anyway Skeets vas was more anxious to become a aradio aradio aradio radio singer Neither careers ever ever carne came to much But Skeets is awell veU vell liked and important executive executive tive tivo at the NBC today There ft-There There was Walter Littledale of or tho the Times who arrived at frozen Murray bay in Canada when word carne came down that the first fliers to cross cross from Europe had landed on Greenly Island Littledale Littledale Little Little- dale did not waste any time Ume bendIng bending bend bend- ing log elbows with the other boys in the town saloon Ho He scurried around and learned that there was only one wire and visualized I Ithe the io rush there would be for that single telegraph instrument when the rescue plane finally arrived from Gr Greenly Island He had a detective story magazine under his arm when he learned this in interesting interesting interesting in- in information and from he the tho window saw another reporter approaching So he handed the magazine ag zine to the telegraph operator operator opera opera- tor tar and told him to send it to toie the ie e Times at Montreal The operator operator op- op worked his fingers to tho the proverbial ial bone tapping out de detective detective detective de- de stories and the Times paid a pretty substantial bill bUl for forthe forthe forthe the service But when the tho fliers Hers had arrived and two hundred ri rushed tho the wire tho the operator held them ot off because tho the Times was sending stories to Montreal LIttledale's les le's teal real piece went through first |
