The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-30
HEEnsOs or A COLUAENIsT's GIRL FRIDAY

lEEHsOs or A COLUMrsIsT's \
 GIRL FRIDAY
 Dear Mfr. W.: Senator Bob Reys holds Is filibustefing Mary Alicia Tobin, one of the towns leading copywiters. She's at the Benton and Bowles Agency, and the sena- tor writes her at least two letters daily-woo-wool Noel Carter's mother phoned and Billy Vines father dittod, about the item that Noel and Bill had secretly wed before sailing. Said it's not true, etc. Noel herself allegedly con- fided "all" to chums, sowot? -. Could 1t be that the Jack Demp- seys are increasing the population again? I'm just askin' :. !. Evelyn Cakes. who does the furnishing with Dick Stabile's crew, rnsrfies A. Cor don Findlay, vice-pres of the Amer ican Tobacco Go, tomorrow at Dal- las ..S. I like Phil Bakers ob- servation. He says New York is now a town where Fair visitors from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, look at the, people from Racine, Wisconsin, and say: ''Humph, these New Workers don't dress any better than we dol"
 Ever wonder what becomes of old blankets at hotels? Well, they're sterilized, and then cut up and used on tables in restaurants as a base and softener underneath tablecloths I'm still breathless from that Louis Galento fight Tony probably was misquoted all along about his taunt: "He's a bun'l' :. {. :. He must have meant: Hes a bomb!" Duke Daly and Paula Stone are not admitting anything, but he's just bought house in Beverly Hills, and intinates say it isn't mean for bachelor. Probably secretly married months ago. I know Mrs Daly gave him divorce in Florida when you were there i. :. Until the Japanese started stripping those Britishers, never knew why they always carried cameras! =. :. dunno why, but I am told that if you want to know approximately how much. longer you'll live, sub- tract your age from 80, multiply the remainder by seven, and divide the result by 10.
 These bits of picturesque re- porting" just came in Years ago the late Bill McNutt covered the Harvard-Yale crew races on the Thames :. Damon Runyon covered them for the Hearst papers. Bill told chums that after the race. he perspired a half hour or SO over his opening sentences, and then wrote: "Yale nosed out Harvard by less than length in an excit- ing finish to an exciting race" :. The next day he picked up Run- yon's lead and envied Damon'S delightful simile, to wit: Tn the last ten seconds of the Harvard Ysle race yesterday, the Yale crew arahed their backs like eight angry cats and clawed their way to vic- tory" .. About 12 years ago when Bobby Jones was at his peak Don Skene in the Tribune wrote about the final round Gin which Jones WOE the Open): "They wound up the mechanical man of golf this afternoon and sent him clicking over the Fairway" An un- named cub reporter for The Albia. Iowa. Republican .(who was as- sismed to cover class plays of the high schooD came in for his share of literary fame with the follow ing write-up: 'The auditorium was filled with expectant mothers. eagerly awaiting the appearance of their offspring"
 Remember your war against the bad breaks that came to Roy Rob- ertss He's the lad who saved an opening night ("HurTay for What7" when Jack Whiting couldn't make 1t. only to be dropped by the Shuberts later. Well. he's got break at last. Goes with the Helen Hayes show Patricia Whitney who quit vocalizing for the bliss of marriage in Detroit, says an heir is expected in Sept. {. .:St. Clair Mo Kelway has resigned as an editor over at The New Yorker - effec- tive December 31. He's going back to writing for that mag and others i. , There's a lass named Hazel Scott. who sings at the Hickory House. who rates a hand Lew Brown phoned from Boston. Says his show. "Yokel Boy" comes to New York July 9th with no cast