The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-20
Walter WIncheII
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MMAR0s or A CuB REPORTER
 When Norman Alley was Q cop, ,ocV on M Chicago gazette, hls firsl reporting assignment consisted oI
 golng over to the engraving room
 a rival rag, posing as that news.
 pApers copy hoy-asking for plates
 og some exclusive pix and get.
 ting them When he trlum.
 phantly returned to his own papcl
 with the hl-jseked pictures the boss
 patted him on the shoulder
 A few minutes later the boss nos
 elced Alley playing with e knife. He
 asked Alley where he got it Al..
 ley said he picked 1t up at the same place he swiped the photos The
 boss almost exploded with apoplexy N. "See here, young manw he
 shouted. You've gotta make up your mind about your own future. Do you want to become famous as Hccopy Alley, the famous reporter or just c common thlef?"
 At Che "Tlght Shoes" prevlew, Henny Youngman ran into Lionel Sander "rhe Genius with the un- kempt Hair" and greeted him like
 this: "Hullo. Big Shotl I'll toss ycu . shampool"
 George Jessel put on . camp show with Jack Benny, Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert and . big cast of Hollywood famous over the week end. The audience numbered 3b,0O0 At Camp Hunter Liggett, eleven hours by motor car, away up in the hills As Jessel came on stage he got Q roar with: well, fellers, don't worry. The Nazzys will never find you up herel" .. Later Jes- sei told them how he envied their youth-and their chances of becom- ing famous.
 'Who can tell" he observed, (which one of you twenty years from today-will be played on the screen by Don Ameche"
 Drama critics aren't always lneanies .. When George Bernard Shaw was Q critic @ young actress asked him what he thought of her ability Shaw tod her to get married have two children, learn something about life, then she would be able to act .... She followed his counsel Five years later she returned to the theater and be- came a great actress Sybn Thorndike.
 One of Hltler's defenders was boasting about the Fuehrer's thor oughness He never does any, thing by halves" he said.
 Tn that case," ha-ha'd Carl Hoff, ''he must have Q tough time with his morning grapefruit"
 william L. Shirer's book, Berlin Diary," Is out today. Shirer was CBS correspondent In Berlin for years. He tells of the German mother of an airman who was no. titled by the Luftwaffe that her son was dead. A few days later, BEG In London, (which weekly Q list of Nazi prisonerS) announced that her boy had been captured. Next day she got eight letters from neighbors telling her they had heard by short-wave that her &pn was alive in England It Is against the law in Germany to listen to fUre:gn broadcastS .. The mother had oil eight arrested for breaking the law" ... When Shirer wanted to use the story on his broadcast the NaEi censor de- leted 1t on the ground that Ameri- cans would not understand the heroism of the airman's mother"l
 We think . newspaperman once wrote this about Teddy Roosevelt. We were reminded of 1t when the news broke that Lou Gehrig had passed away in his sleep .... Death had to take him sleeping; Tor If he had been awake-there would have been Q fightl"
 Alexander Weollcott tells 1t about Charles MacArthur When Mac arrived in New York he couldn't get Q newspaper job so he became press agent for . mausoleum | After weeks of getting no action, his ooss insisted that Charlie get him 1t least c paragraph of publicity on the joint Macarthur sprang nto action by wiring the Mayor of Boston demanding that he send the bones of Henry Wadsworth Long, AR T Fl RITxS