Show W I 1 19 tales of 01 the towns town when the editors and publishers were in town for their annual convention several of them were talking shop one recalled the time when heywood broun was a cub and he was instructed to come in very early one christmas morn when broun arrived the empty city room depressed him the desks were littered with remnants of the previous nights tale clippings bare spikes curled up cheese sandwiches and beer containers suddenly off in a corner a telegraph instrument started to click tobacco tins were jammed against the telegraph bugs to make them louder one after the other joined in the monotonous chorus all chirping the same message lie he could tell he said later that they were trying to report something important happening somewhere but he understand a word they were tapping finally in came a sleepy telegrapher broun said please tell me what is happening they are all clicking madly maybe a liner has been sunk or a king assassinated or an earth im sure its a big story and our paper is being scoop edl the veteran listened to one after the ot other herand and then smiled this is christmas son said the old timer they are all saying the same thing A child is born a child is born a child is born in the days when most of the papers we were e on park row a certain editor was nicknamed simon legree because of the way he kicked around some of the staff one night and this is journalistic history a stand the abuse any longer ile he threw the ed editor 1 tor down a flight of stairs the next night when he came in the staff presented the reporter with a gold watch loscri inscribed bed for the best jell journalism realism in 1928 11 one night some of us were privileged to meet mgt al the philadelphia boy who was decorated at guadalcanal Guadal canal for erasing over japs u until antil one of their grenades blinded him al who is dutch irish has a different slant on the war he talked a lot about two of his buddies one rivers a protestant who died there and one lad named diamond from brooklyn a jewish chop chap they say said al that I 1 killed japs I 1 dont know how true that is I 1 never salt that I 1 was told so by people who read it in the papers and he kept talking about the others or wishing hard that he could do something about waking up the people back homel home when the G men collared the last big bunch of nazi spies just before we entered the war some of the prisoners revealed the following that after the advance men had been smuggled in and had made all the most elaborate preparations laying the ground work with secret radio stations and all the other othe r standbys stand bys the nazis sent over their very best agent lie he was a man who had worked all over the world and he e had never failed on any assignment sign ment there was just nothing this bloke know about the noble art of espionage and he was sent here to take charge of matters on his first day in new york the other nazi spies gathered to meet him where he planned to give them their instructions on his way to the rendezvous however something went wrong with the script even the higher ups in berlin never figured to coach him in a most important detail how frow to cross the street at times square the great spy was killed trying to get out of the way of a cab tle the big show sallies in our alley dick himber heard colonel romulo he helped rescue macarthur tell it at a party it was the one joke said romulo that kept us laughing on bataan until the end A mamma rabbit and a daddy rabbit were in the woods when they saw a pack of wolves they hid in a cave how long will we hide here asked the mamma rabbit until was the reply we outnumber leml the front pages the most important m problem for some newspapers was reported by united press from providence R 1 I the state senate it appears passed a measure that would make it mandatory for rhode island newspapers to t print names and addresses of all writers of editorials and ditto for those whose letters are published under the letters to the editor col bums quotation marksmanship G martin i true generosity is the ability to accept I 1 ingratitude the alabama times show courtesy to others not because they are gentlemen but because you are eugene oneill the censorship which begins by banning a strip tease show always finishes by condemning as treason a play which hints that washington might not have chopped down that tree anon ile he is a dark clark gable bodied young man life is a business that does not pay expenses |