The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
NOW IT'S MY TURN PART D iThs Black Face Are Ours)

lThe Black Face Are Ours)
 Ar. Winchell. this is not anothel interview. I am an obituary editor representing all the obituary editors They are a little confused ahou your alleged life story. We havI clips on you from Golfers. the Sat. trday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, Fortune, Time American Mercury, Judge, Scrih. ner's, Life, Look, The New Yorker Vanity Fair, Liberty, Cosmopolitan Readers Digest and almost all ths movie and radio magazines. Bui nearly all of them clash. This ap- pears to De careless data-ccllecting Shoddy reporting. Now, we obit ed: gre not interested in any opinion criticism or personal spleen. We merely want to get the data cor rect. So will you please again sub init to microscopic examination7
 For instance: Did you ever accept . Stutz from Owney Madden?
 He sent me one, but paid him S2,000 that day for t.
 Did you ever have an awesome encounter with Richard Rodgers, the composer, in Palm Beach, Fla?
 Never been in Palm Beach. know Rodgers only to say good bye to.
 Do you make your notes in a loose leaf note book2
 No, have always jotted them down on yesterdays proof.
 Was a lawsuit by Rochester carpenter, over something you said on the air, ended with a settlement to the carpenter?
 The case was thrown out of every court in the state. He appealed as high as he could go.
 Did you ever order any of the Stork Club captains around in a proprietary manner? Did you ever order anybody around there?
 Only once. When they refused ad- mittance to WolcOtt Gibbs and St. Clair McKelway. I happened to be near the door and got them in. I also got stuck with the tip!
 Do you walk into places where you are not known and announce your name to see how much hub- hub you can cause?
 No. ! always use an assumed name, such as George Jean Nathan, or President Roosevelt, so strang- CTS won't ask me for my autograph.
 Have you an older brother named
 No. I have . younger brother named Al, three years younger.
 Is 1t true that when you were in vaudeville your act never got more than $l00 a week, which was tops at Loew's American Roof?
 We got S275 a week from Pan- taSes, when I quit the stage in 1920.
 Did you ever link the name of restaurant owner, who IS married, with another woman?
 Never. Harold Ross, the magazine editor, does that.
 Is 1t true that the Graphic, on which you started in 1924, didn't print gossip and wouldn't deign to publish anything that hadn't been duly recorded on 8 police blotter because the Graphic had its ethics?
 Oh, stop! You talk like . high school student of journalism.
 Is it true your managing editor on that paper got permission from the publisher to fire you on the grounds that the managing editor said he simpy could not work on the same paper with youY
 He didn't get permission to fire me. He just did. O. !. Elder, head man for the publisher, was in Eu- rope at the time and told me when he returned how unhappy it made them all and why didn't I wait until I talked to him before sign- Ing any contracts elsewhere. Co., Incidentally enough. that m. .. fol- lowed me over to the Mirror few later. Get it?
 Is it true that Mrs. Winchell re- fuses to be seen in public places?
 Mrs. Wincheil Is seen in them sheneyer I can get up in time to take her ont. She dodges opening nights and night clubs because that vas how she had to make her Mv- Ing before I did all the work in Inc family. She simply detests them now. She told me to say for her Itat she is also fed up with free lance interviewers who put on a boiler than thou attitude towards Eosgp- writing but peddle lengthy articles based chiefly on unchecked Items.