The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-10
Walter Wi1lcIaeIl Or BrOadzCny
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 Newspaperman Stuff: The foreign news coverage business isn't and won't be so good in this war, &C., cording to experts on the subject. For the news services 1t has never been much good One 0utfbit paid weekly wages of $25 and $35 to live in Barcelona and Madrid for months, under daily bombardments and hideous living conditions :. Lawrence Fernsworth of the Times, who was on space, collected all of $09 for his final month with the gazette. He went to the Spanish war front every .dawning, and a very dangerous one it was, too. He had to travel over a long road. strafed by planes, back to Bar celona to write his dispatch, and walk two miles from his house through darkened streets to cen- sorship, etc, etc. .. Webb Miller of United Press says glory should be enough.
 As far as we know, none of the services insures their men When Jay Allen covered the early months of the war in Spain, his Chicago publisher insured him for $50,000 Leland Stowe, 10 years with the N. Y. Herald Tri- bune, hoped to go abroad when the war crisis began He was told he was too old to cover wars :. And so he quit to become London correspondent tor The Chicago Daily News Mrs. Reid, the Herald Trib publisher, expressed great sur- prise when she heard that people on the Trib considered Stowe Q has-been. She urged him to stay, but he wanted action over there. Stowe, since 1895, was un- happy cutting paper dolls over at the Trib In 1883 he made a rrip to Germany and upon his re- turn wrote book called: "NaM Germany Wants War" Some of his editors considered it very funny. It must be Q satisfaction to Stowe to know he was six years ahead of his betters.
 sButchn Bigbee is the most out- spoken of the beauties on Broad way Last night La Bigbee was burning up her colleagues by parading backstage at the Dia- nnond Horseshoe with four new fur coats "Hey, Butch!" leased . show gal, "Are you being affec- donate with a furrier?"
 "No," she said simply, I'm being affectionate with everybody"
 Returning chorus girls and acc tors confirm the reports that Holly wood studios have laid off or dis charged hundreds of contract play CTS and others in the stiffest econ- omy wave in a long spell "Is it really that bad out there?" one of us asked a former Broadway chlorine, who lasted two years in the movie sector Haven't you hCard?" she replied. Things are SC tough in Hollywood why even the biggest magnates have taken 6 $25 cutl"
 VVAh V SCAA SVhAAhsG ASVCWShA yVN " read the one about the two refugee dachshunds. She wants to see fl she remembers it herself Any. how, they met in Central Park and one remarked how swell things were in America. "Isn't 1t wonderful said the first dachshund, "greer, trees, grass, lots of hydrants and lamp posts. and none of those damned storm troopers kicking you around. Oh, it's 50 much better over here than in Berlin, don't you think?"
 .Oh, I dunno" replied the other dachshund. Tn Berlin we had a beautiful house on the Unter der Linden, plenty of servants and 6 motor car. And besides Berlin I was c St. Bernardl"
 Last week one of the buyers ir saks Fifth avenue had the most successful sale his department hal known since 1928. A fellow buyer