Show SUBBING FOR WINCHELL r Scribe Finds T Tolerance ls Is Relative Matter I IDy By Dy JACK LA LATE r This to me is what the carnival and nd circus folk call getaway day After six alx weeks of doing my myad ad ac under the big top I I. I pu pull up stakes and scram W. W Winchell is returning from ro vacation 1 There are ara accumulated memos One says scribbled in hieroglyphics hieroglyph hieroglyph- ics lea tb that t only I can decode decode bk This me means Explain book And that means reply to the m many ny who have inquired about New NewYork York York Confidential Confidential I Last year year it was announced that I and Lee Mortimer had h d written the first of at a a series of books purporting pur pur- purporting porting to relate the low down on New York Hollywood Chicago i perhaps others New y York York Con Con Confidential was to lu have ve veen been en published pub published last winter It has not yet lyet appeared After we turned in the manuscript manu manuscript script which was wad accepted with enthusiasm we ran into delays delays- excuses excuses evasions Finally we were told there would be bo no publication unless wc we eliminated eliminated nate certain ertan por portions ons' ons and revised others other We were told some lame of the material would of offend tend minorities minor minor- itie- itie and that some might be libelous The Tho disputed portions had to do with effects of ot radicalism and com communism coin coin- on certain portions of the city c ty notably Harlem and its eastern eastern eastern east east- ern ern fringes here hero called Little Spain t An opinion th that t those chapt chapters ra were offensive and dangerous was was signed by the publishers publisher's attorney Stanley Isaacs s who has been m much ch in public controversy over his political po po- leanings and his official as M- sedation with a a. a known professional red red- now a Sf state communist communist communist executive We refused to make any elisions or changes In time the contract was taken over ovar by Ziff Davis Publishing Co Cu of Chicago and New York rk whose specialists found our statements neither inflammatory nor actionable action action- able I. I There was Wa choice I information fo mation f for r instance on how to wangle a seat in club N Now Nosy night nightclubs clubs afford a wide choice of oil seats us usually ally about three thre three fourths fourtha f of t. t the c chairs empty we h had c a a chapter chapter chap chap- ter on on Dream Street an entire book on it under that title has since ce appeared many of lof the predIctions pre pre- dIctions we we ventured to make have already COrne come thi- thi through thigh gh and have become old stuff r f I J Speaking my mindIn l a a. column n of such wide circulation has emphasized emphasized em em- to tom m me Jm more more than ev ever ever r the increasing g intolerance of ninny many who scream scream scream- fp for t l r n e. e To hold ny opinion out outside dc the prefabricated rIc te prop propaganda ganda for tor the many nany movements aimed to bombard bombard bombard bom bom- bard us us into Int unconsciousness unconsciousness' of patent palpable facts is violently verboten I mu must t not call a aman man who was born in Sicily and who was deported deported de- de ported back there a Sicilian as that hat of offends tends all who ho have Sicilian roots a Puerto Rican who arr arrived ved hero this thin morning in a filthy plane I I F chartered to pour votes into VIto M disgraceful district Is Is not a a Pu Puerto Rican and I am aman aman an un American so so fend and so for so designating him I must not say crime and vice rice are blatant in Harlem Har- Har eni leni where they are scandalous because I 1 am m maligning a la race race race- I 1 must never m mention Harlem at atall atall atall all in connection with good deeds good people champions a and stars Since when in America can we haye Kaye fun tun with some some but not tot wi with others Men in my own profession have been lampooned as d drunken profane brash loudmouths So what I have no recollection of anyone snubbing me because he head had ad seen Front Page |