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Show The New York Scene: Sallies in Our Alley: A drama critic was saying he had to cover a new show, although advance reports re-ports revealed it was a stinker . . . "Then why don't you skip it?" he was asked ... "I gotta go," he groaned, "I need the sleep!" . . . Milton Berle, entertaining at a nearby near-by army camp, rocked his audience audi-ence with this: "What kind of a place is this, anyway? As I came in here a big soldier came up to me and said: 'Are you Milton Berle?' When I said yes, he said: 'I want you to knew you've always been No. 1 on my Hit Parade' and then he hit me!" PRAYER: He's yours noiv and since I cant have him back, I want to tell you certain things lo do: He likes his door left open just a crack (The dark can scare a little guy of two). Put Mother Goose upon the nearest shelf. And keep a shabby "Teddy" ever near And when you hear him laughing to himself Call all the Angels in so they can hear ; Be good to him and give him all the things That I can never give him anymore . . . A puppy dog, a plane with silver wings, A Noah's Ark to sail the nursery floor ; And, Mary, when small Angels go to bed. Lean down for me and kiss his curly head. Martha. New York Street Scene: We overheard over-heard it at the corner of 58th and 5th the other sundown, while waiting wait-ing for the lights to switch . . .' The cabbie, who recognized us, explained what happened . . . His impatient passenger kept screaming at him to never mind the lights but hurry to 42nd Street she had a date and was late ... So he stopped and barked: "Lady, this is where you change for the aeroplane!" New York Novelette: He was 1-A and waiting to be called ... So they decided to take what happiness they could and blend before he entered en-tered the army ... To set the day, he called his draft board to find out how much time they had before be-fore he would go ... At first they couldn't find his card . ... Then they discovered an error ... A careless clerk had filed it among the list of draftees who had died since registering . . . The board informed him that he would be inducted within with-in a week . . . Where they could have stolen years of happiness, they now have but a few days . . . They were married yesterday and will part Monday ... If he hadn't phoned, he probably wouldn't have been called for the duration. Former CBS news editor Matthew Gordon has joined the literary legions le-gions fighting Axis propaganda with a punchy book, "News Is a Weapon" (Knopf) ... He reports that when Harold Denny, the N. Y. Times newsboy, returned to this country after being in a Nazi prison, he said: "The Nazi official questioned me about the New York Times, which he evidently hated, and revealed more knowledge of this newspaper's internal inter-nal organization than I had myself. He told me of a staff change that I verified on arriving in New York!" . . . Actually the staff change was no secret. The Times itself mentioned men-tioned it. But the incident illustrates how closely Nazis follow our press, because they know it is one of their most formidable enemies. James Gordon Bennett Sr. became a journalist in the 1820s . . . When he died in 1872 he was called "The World's Most Infamous Journalist" and a "black-hearted, contemptible libeler" by his kindlier enemies . . . Bennett was the first Washington correspondent before starting the old N. Y. Herald, which he created in a cellar, with candles as the only source of light. His initial investment invest-ment was $500. He was the entire staff, including porter ... He is blamed for so-called "yellow journalism," jour-nalism," and his coverage of a famous fa-mous trial in 1836 is still a Broadway classic. You can read it in Oliver Carlson's "The Man Who Made News," published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc. . . . Newspaper men of his day liked him because he paid them well . . . Bennett's old foe, Horace Greeley, wrote Bennett's Ben-nett's eulogy, and Bennett would have approved because it was no attempt at-tempt at a good notice ... At his funeral every important editor in New York served as a pallbearer ... He must have been good. When Richard Trcgaskis, the INS correspondent who authored "Guadalcanal "Guad-alcanal Diary" (the February Book of the Month), first applied for a job with the news service, he was hired on the strength of a unique qualification qualifi-cation a full and working knowledge knowl-edge of the Portuguese language. He was put into the cable department with a view to eventual service in Lisbon or Rio de Janeiro Came December 7 and Pearl Har bor, and where was Trcgaskis as signed? To the Solomon Islands with the U. S. marines! |