The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-28

NOTES or A NEW YORKER
 Zhere was . shooting down at the Tavern on Greenwich Street in low- CT Manhattan the other night :. The place is a hangout for the staff of The World Telegranl-it's practi- caliy an annex ... Usually there are from ten to fifteen newspaper reporters, editors, re-write men and other attaches from that paper having . soda-pop But when this shooting happened one of them was there The Telly had to get its story from Police Headquarters A worse fate, however, was Earl Sparling's, . for mer World -Telly star, now with the Post Sparling was the first re- porter on the scene after the pistol parked coming in just before the cops got there and he loved 1t when he looked out at the crowd on the pavement and saw . dozen of his former World -Telly colleagues who couldn't get in They had the last laugh, though Sparling couldn't get out to enjoy his big GGUQU UGG0u0C tkAG OVDo WC1C AkV1AAAk him as q material witnessl
 Talk about Wall Streeters who dis like the Preside there's this one about two brokers who were willing away the hours at their club K. "Let's turn on the radio" suggested the first, land listen to Roosevelt"
 "Oh. all right" reluctantly agreed the other, "but remember, now. If the survey people call us up-we're not listeningl"
 If r. D. R. runs for third time, you can be certain about this: He will lose Maine, Vermont and the Saturday Evening Post :. The other night a gent was refused en- trance to the Stork Club Sena- tor Nye, who is one of the opposi- ton against lifting the embargo and a believer in isolation, admits in his talk in the newsreels that he has decided what side he would like to see win the war ISolationist? <. Milton Berle's observation: Thank goodness we live in a country where if the map needs changing we just give 1t facial Seems like the modern voting booths are now Western Union and Postal Tele- graph offices.
 Bugs Baer recalled the incident at the Central Park Casino several years ago, when a Manhattan news paper wanted to check on the talk that "the common people" were re- fused admittance to that uppity joint The editor sent two sail or pals there to see if they could get in The management, which catered to some decent people, but more to question marks in top hats and ermine, told the uniformed gobs, sorry, only reservations" The newspaper then went to work on the place." and helped turn 1t into a playground for children Bugs Boer, reading the newspapers blast, colyumed: "It seems that sailors can't get in to the Central Park Casino. They've got no squawk They're still in the parkl"
 Harriet Hflllard SuDmltS CnlS pit of picturesque reporting |. =. A dra- natic critic, whose name escapes her, writes this of a new show: "The author let his imagination run away with him, but both forgot to take along the plot" =. Then there was Frank Conniff's in the N. Y. Jour- nal-American. Summing up the in- cident at the Stork Club when George White socked an intruder end then gave him farewell kick in his rumble. the reporter conclud- ed: Whites knuckles. were bruised and so was his right big toe"
 Last Sunday night, this broad caster told his listeners of the change in broadcast-time starting this Sabbath evening-from 9:30 tc g Eastern Standard Time There was a great to-doodle about that announcement "In New York" he said. i've will be heard al instead of 9:30; in California