Show WALTER WINCHELL roads n to fame are all all R W IN h i I 1 I 1 A brooklyn newspaperman once enjoyed roaming through broadway from midnight to dawn he haunted saloons and theaters and hobnobbed hobnob bed with the inhabitants of the show world to gather material tor for yarns he did what abway are now doing his name walt whitman about a century ago a new york scrivener turned out a novel that was wasia a financial failure As a result he gave up writing and took a job as inspector of customs on the gansevoort street pier he held this job for two decades herman melville never lived to see his novel become one of the great classics moby dick one of the struggling poets in greenwich village at the turn of the century managed to live by scrubbing the floors of a saloon years later he scaled the heights and became the english poet laureate john masefield our big dan danger daner er said a headline reader is from russians who think this nations asleep you mean corrected a listener ten r from americans who think this count rys awake broadway confetti inside USA has to run a year at a big bia bi before it pays angels a dividend we have a new new ker about duffy square he greets the s by name hello pierre hocz beatrice well oscar where you been sammy if it hortense the black market ticket scan dal at the circus has the specs taking fewer chances news item stock exchange emil schram declared emphatically that americans worry about another 1929 crash you if you dont buy any stocks he be means intelligentsia the magazine set has the giggles over the jokester who had the new yorkers movie critic as his chump john mccarten of that mag was summoned to the phone the other sabbath evening told to move his radio closer to the receiver and was asked silly questions for a quiz contest which it insiders who pulled the gag still are in stitches chesl 1 |