| Show Walter Winchell Newly published h is Harpers Harper i Blood and Banquets a Berlin social diary by Bella Fromm a aGerman aGerman aGerman German refugee refugee refugee refu- refu gee living in New York The book took is taken from a diary she kept w while h 11 e working in Berlin It contains 1 many sensational sensational sensational sensa sensa- revelations revelations revelations a about b 0 u t Hitler and his mobsters Inside gossip gossip gossip gos- gos sip about them all plus Winchen behind the scenes information Miss Fromm's diary was smuggled out of Germany In the diplomatic pouch of one of the great powers pow pow- ers She recovered it after she escaped from Germany just before before before be be- fore the warThe war The best part of H H. Pearsons Pearson's of G G. B B. Shaw is 15 that it scoops up some new anecdotes about the with the White Beard Shaw detests exercise One time Sandow the famed strong man tried to entice enUce him to become a pupil and add some muscles to his scrawny frame Shaw replied You misunderstand misunderstand misunderstand mis mis- understand my case I have seen you supporting on your magnificent mag magnificent mag- mag chest 20 men two grand pianos and a couple of elephants and and I have no doubt you could I train me me meto to do the same But But by object as 81 to pianos elephants and crowds is to keep p them off oft my chest not heap them on it It Former C CBS B S news editor Matthew Gordon has joined the literary legions fighting axis propaganda with a punchy book News Is a Weapon Knopf He reports that when Harold Denny the N N. Y Times newsboy newsboy newsboy news news- boy returned to this country after being in a nazi prison He said aid The nazi official questioned ques- ques qu ques questioned s- s me about the New York Times which he evidently hated i and revealed more knowledge of thi this newspapers newspaper's internal organIzation organization organization organ organ- than I had myself He told me of a staff start change that I verified 1 on arriving in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Actually the staff change was no secret The Times itself mentioned it But the in incident incident in- in illustrates how closely nazis follow our press because they know it is one of their most formidable enemies One poignant paragraph in Ed Beatties Beattie's Freely to Pass underlines underlines un un- un- un the horror the axi axis has unleashed on ordinary lives Describing Describing Describing De De- scribing the bombing of Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canter Canter- bury he writes The street for many j yards ards w was as a mass of bright jelly beans and sugar almonds and taffy and chocol chocolate te drops wrapped in tinfoil and several SC children were already asking what had happened to the old candy shopkeeper By a miracle he had been blown clear and was unhurt but the shop was a wreck of a childs child's heaven It struck me that no one either child or adult cared to t bend end down and gather up the candy Hugh Bras Byas Is one of the better better better bet bet- ter foreign newsboys ne who has spent more than two decades in Japan Knopf has published his analysis of the gangster nation aptly titled Government by Assassination The army officers officers officers of of- and the secret societies are the real rulers of Japan They rule by murdering those who dare to disagree When Charlie Chaplin visited Nippon one of those murder groups made plans to kill him in the hope it Jt t would start a war with America Of course such things seem weird to us in America until you remember this We Ve have had many such crackpot outfits Inthis in inthis inthis this country who are vicious and bloodthirsty The difference is this In Japan such outfits rule the country but here they're exposed ex ex- posed 1 When lIen Richard the I INS N S correspondent w who ho authored authored authored au au- au- au Guadalcanal Diary the February book of the month first applied for a job with the news service he was hired on the n strength of ot a unique tion-a tion ion a full and working knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of the Portuguese language He was put into the cable department de de- department de- de with a view to eventual eventual eventual even even- service in Lisbon or Rio de Janeiro Came December 7 and Pearl Harbor and where was assigned To the Solomon islands with the U. U S. S marines marines' Jam James 5 Gordon Bennett Sr became became became be be- came a journalist in the When he dl died In 1872 he be was waa called the worlds world's most infamous infamous infamous journalist and a black hearted contemptible libeler by his kindlier enemies Bennett was the first Washington correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- before starting the old N N. Y Herald which he created in a cellar with ith candles as the only source of light His initial investment was He was the entire staff including porter He is blamed for so-called so and his bis coverage of a famous trial in 1836 is still sUll a Broadway classic You can read it in Oliver Carlson's Carlson's Carlson's Carl Carl- sons son's The Man Who M Made Ml de News published by Duell Sloan and Pearce Inc Newspaper Newspaper- Newspapermen men of his day liked him Mm because he paid them well Bennetts Bennett's old foe Horace Greeley wrote Bennetts Bennett's eulogy and Benn Bennett tt would have approved because it was teas no attempt at a good notice At his funeral every important important tant editor in New York served as a pallbearer He must ha have ve been good Copyright 1942 Daily Daffy Mirror |
