The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
n,] BY THE MAN IN TIT TOWER
Good Evening.

a.
Big Guy . . Whenever you have the urge to drop
down and see Dan Parker who's doing yeoman job on
the Daily Mirror in New York, ask to Hete Fithian
Cateu who to my way of thinking is of the SWEETEST
newspaper gals I've known. Courage is her first
name and Beauty is the second, and Lend-a-handto-
any-frend" the third
And after you've made your respects to them - and
others on the Mirror Editorial saffwho my friends,
drop up-if one can drop up-to Nick kenney on the
sixth floor
The elevator lads are casual and you may have diff
Guilty in finding Ncks office; but the minute you get to
Ncks office you'll know that your time has come For
Nicks office is perpetual bedam and you wonder how
he can get out daily the possibly most widely read Radio
column in America write, edit and direct radio show,
write nnumerable songs help and aid all kinds OF people,
and turn up fresh daisy at the Stork CLUB when MS
never-ending day is done And please donC cnecK lie
on that senence)
The Bull of Bashan had voice, I've been told, but
I'll back Nicks voice against any bull in the world It's
good voice. and he's not afraid to speak, and fills the
whole the quarters which he shares Withalso song
writer his brother Charlie Jolly Bill the artist and
little Mary who's long suffering associate of the
Miraculous Nick.
have great admiration for Nick Kenny. He was
sailor in the last war; and I've heard very roWdy one
-. But who wants COB to be cream puff? Someone,
I've forgotten who but priest at that induced NICK 10
go into the newspaper game My first introduction to
him reprint of poem I'd once written, which
Nick seemed to think filled the bill for requiem on
friend of his who had died in the navy. And Nick then
on small paper in Bayonne N j.
How he Jumped from there to the Mirror - where he
has framed testimonials from not only the great Willie
Hearst himself but from SMALL humble priests in little
parishes for whom Nick put on show - can't tell YOU
But tell you he has lot of drag in many places
He to that drag except in the case OF TREND
And in friendship Nick Kenny excels It's one of the nice
things about him. So poor Nick is always trying to do
something for somebody else and usually taking it on the
chin for his pains.
But when you 60 up to his office you will hear stem
torian roar-for he find anything, and the
patient little Mary hands him what he needs and brother
Charlie does lot too and Jolly Bill looks his glasses
puffs out his fallen chest, and wants to know
'whatthehelsgoinon and all is right i'll the workshop
of Nick Kenny.
The wall is plastered with tear sheets from songs,
and from songs which he and he and Charlie and
he and somebody else have turned out There's piano
an ane-room from which he broadcaSts from the
not the piano parts of his column every day. There are
cartoons the walls, and the window shades
which depict the life of Nick Kenny in more than irrev
ercnt terms.
Kenny works like beaver. When he sleeps l, for
don't know and for that matter he may never sleep
My wife him the other night in the Stork Club.
said "Why didn't you speak to him"
She said 81 afraid to. He seemed SO big
But Nick Kenny is never too big to talk to any one,
especially attractive and very lovely woman who
happens to be the wife of friend who is working
on the Democrat and having grand time telling you
of things like ths-E. L.