Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-30
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Nem Workers Are
Talking about:

Babe Ruth's price (S25,OOO) for
his services in the Gehrig film,
which Goldwyn screams is too
much. He will prob'ly pay it,
though, as Ruth is ''must' in any
biography of Gehrig . Jimmy
Walker, the former Mayor, who is
being considered as the head of new
racetrack to be built in N. Y. The
hackers being very wealthy French
refugees, wondering where to invest
their coin MGM's planned film
version of the towns big hit, "Best
Foot Forward For Mickey
and Judy The Nice-Work Dept:
One of Lies editors who was or
dered to spend at least two weeks
with Ginger Rogers-for a profile
piece The way ex-Warden
Lawes has added twenty pounds
since "getting OUT of Sing Sing
Prison.
The way the British radio pounds
away at Italy's slipping morale with
eight daily broadcasts urging the
country to unlatch itself from Ber-
lin Rome's reply prob'ly is:
''Why speak to us? Take it up
with the Warden!" The sew
eral society lads, on the verge of
being drafted, who flew to Califor-
mia, shifting residences there at the
same time. So that when their
numbers come up they'll 60 to a
camp in sunny Cal. . Dumb, huh?
The new bootlegging racket in
England, where more bootlegging
goes on in the clothing field than in
food. And in mems attire!
The book, 81 Paid Hitler" by Fritz
Thyssen, the industrialist who first
helped the Nazis in Germany
Jimmy Wong Howe, the Chinese
cameraman, and Rabbi Edgar Mag
min, who made speeches for short
to raise funds for Irish Relief
The depressing news about Hen
dirk Willem Van Loon, whose docs
have ordered him to stop all activity
for the next six months The
Rev. Jardine, who came to the aid
of Wally and the Duke. His letters
are now ignored.
The way some of the pro-Nazis
over here outsmarted themselves.
The coin they saved on postage by
having their hymns of hate franked
through the mails doesn't begin to
cover the costs of lawyers and bail
-. Jimmy Dorsey's check for $40,-
900 from Decca, as his royalties for
the first half of 1941. In short, he
hit the Jukepot.
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Story Tellers: Clifton Fadi-
man will have you know that he's
book-reviewer, not literary crit
ic. He points out the big difference
in "The Reviewing Business" in
Harper's. Literary criticism is an
art" he says, ''like the writing of
tragedies or the making of love and,
similarly, does not pay. Book re-
viewing is device for earning
a living" Charles Poore also
takes box-office slant at the prose
racket in The Times mag, in his
definition of the Pulitzer Prize. The
value of the prize, he says, is "a
thousand dollars in cash to those who
accept it and ten thousand dollars in
publicity for those who refuse it.
The Front Pages: An editorial in
the Herald Tribune epigrams the
spot the Bolo armies have put the
Huns in. 1.-THE Russians" the daily
points out, "have only to survive
somehow in order to win; Hitler has
to win in order to survive"
You can spot the Fascists' weari-
ness for the war in their weakening
propaganda Dragging. Recently they
claimed only to have damaged the
British plane carrier, Ark Royal. In
all previous naval scraps, both the
HelnleS and the Fascists have be-
gun with the sinking of that vessel.
Broadway Is Like This:
Broadway is where after you've
reached the top-at least a dozen
acquaintance claim having played
big part in it But when you
fail-everybody blames you And
you blame the 'breaks" instead of
looking for a job where your talent
will be respected-such as waiting
on tables or being president of a
bank No matter how nice you
are there will always be others who
will knock you-from sheer force of
habit A fellow who is consid-
cred more important than Roosevelt
or WilllSie is one who can pick at
least one winner out of seven
races If you don't talk about
yourself-then you run the risk of
being bored stiff listening to others
CAB about themselves The
Broadway lights have done more to
make the street famous than any of
the famed folk on it,
Broadway is still the zippiest
street of them all Remember
when some people wrote articles al
leging it was dead few years back?
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