Show f ii notes of an innocent bystander from james IV W barretts book on joseph pulitzer the great newsy newspaper publisher A journalist in JP s pulitzer CP inception J nc eption is a artates man as well as a writer i the basis of it was something mori more profound than persistent curiosity about people and things JP of course was the most incorrigible busybody of his day and age his habit of asking questions about everything under the sun and demanding de mandin g accurate as well as immediate answers was as an amusing and often annoying trait but it was only a mech I 1 aniam through which an eager prehensile mind was was kept supplied with working material he had an objective which he refused to put aside As long as he lived he wanted to inform and mold public opinion not just for the sake of profits but for the sake of progress in the direction where he thought america ought to be heading our incorrigible busybody dept dep it army intelligence think that great britain hasa hag a severe case of brass hat poisoning arent the members of the supreme court now all pulling one way at each others hair did you know that the president changed the nickname for to six percent per cent henry ryll what two Cabinet officers are suffering suiT ering from make makeup up poisoning their friends make up the stories ard and they do the poisoning what invention can drop a sandbag down a chimney at feet and what seely secy of war would like to do it to what washington will why y do the supreme court in justices call their edifice the mausoleum when it that lively photography helped the british censors more than it has hollywood this be an aid to britain to mail the photostats photo stats to your friends and let his Maje godt keep the originals what C canadian an adlan official who believes the war cabbe can be won by lowering wages will shortly be elevated by a kick in the tail light what size tank is giving the generals a bigger headache than the privates who steer them what ambassador Arribas turned in an honest days do a work recently for what Cabinet post are ard there more volunteers than for the marine corps and which seely secy of state is vastly amused it true that jesse jones TO nes loaned his brother 1507 anyway jesse wearing his brothers gold watch dont they call secy ickes personality plus pluis since since his secretary solid said good morning to him who defined a liberal as a guy who will forgive anything but a contribution to his campaign arent the officers of the pacific fleet split squarely on the question of whether it will take three weeks or a month to 4 solve the jap navy what prominent Britis hers have the jitters sincie since the boyts inquiry into foreign owned bonds the only thing in which noel coward was small fry and it true that certain self called americans brat brag about their ancestors landing cin on plymouth rock and act as though they had just crawled from under it man alan about town bremos of a fishermen have told authorities that actually seen aben U boats boat off ithe the new england coast that lovely red cross nurse in those new posters ashes marching with four men of the armed forces is hazel french of the powers pretty pretty plantation hazel won the nod over all the models who wanted the assignment because of her beautiful brown orbs arbs so what happened the artist painted her eyes blue there have been fi five ve new ditties with the title of hit all ending with how green was my valley how blue was my heart going to be quite a scandal over the refugee racket dearie deaile involve naturalization and immigration high jinks which have a pretty terrible stench wreck some prominent porticos politic i os are the authorities following up the sensational sat ional charges about the met operas new star a woman allegedly quite friendly with quisling goering et al how goods that talk about mahall marshall Mr hall field bidding for the times and post after his chicago paper is launched anything to the rumor about ills his PM taking ads changing its format and price to ac Chicago tillas who were imported into philly and N Y years ago to help in circulation n wars are now being recruited for action in chicago in case etc add comical ironies A dway guy who pulled al most every major sin on the statutes and never served a single day is now in the bastille for or getting caught in a floating crap gamel game I 1 the certainly hopes that japan will select as her friend the fleet minded american navy instead of the fleet footed italian army |