The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-21
Walter WiHAcheIl
 To NezC York

 NOTES or A NRWsPAPRRMAN
 An unreliable source in Nasiland reports that Hitler, beaten and crushed in spirit, called Q confer. etee of his top men the other day, "oontlemon," hO said, i've arc licked. We haven't Q chance. With forged passport I have made plans to he amugglod through ArgentlnA Into the United States as Q citiRonl Don't try Co keep me here, I'm lOaV. inRl"
 "Ars you mads" exploded ooerlnR, Tn the United sttaeS you know as well as ! do that your ilf0 won't 70 worth . nlokol"
 v know, know" said Hitler do. Jeotedly, "but before die I have made up my mind to do one more thing for tho Fatherland"
 "0h, forgoodnossakOs, AdolfIW pleaded Hermann, "WhAt on earth can you do for the Fatherland ln the United etatesS"
 m 60 to the newsreels and boo the Rooseveltsl"
 Ocean City, Maryland, Dear Wal ter: You make the same mistakes As 80 many sporting writers do In referring to fAVorites. You quote FpK aS Q three to one faVorito when you should refer to him aS 2 one to three faVorlte. Meaning Y you put up 5000 you win i,o0o-- r. Hoen."
 Mir. Aoen means if you put Si,ooo on Dewey you will lose 1t
 A local and Q Republican woro arguing, The latter summed up: You may know your music, son, put 60 far ag politics 60 you're stlll dry behind the Oarsl"
 I'd rather Do dry behind tho ears" punnOd the wag, than Dewey behind thoril"
 10 isnt oftan that the Saturday Evening Post tears its editorial pants, but it ripped them In Q big way in its Issues of Sept. 9th and 18th, when it ran the Inside Story Ss eb8tI 9dffbHdVEt
 Almost word for word tho exact set of facts ran in the Feb. le41 Cosmopolitan in an article by clarke Lee. The title was: "Thn Story Behind ftaly's Surrender, TO mako it worse the Pest ran on editors note in the Sept. 10 issue stating that Q thorough check hal been made and showed that tho story Of italys surrender had neVe been published In the .. 6.
 Nunnally Johnson, tho author ot "CaSanoVa Brown" and other films, suffers considerably from hangoVers when no drinks. A newspapeFman recalled tho morning after" when he was plying Johnson with bromos eitro.carbonato, aSplFIns, etc., and started giving him advice about cure To which Johnson groAnea Would you talk to Noah abou. wat big rainStorms YOU'VE been
 The Writers War Beard devised . subway and trolley car card show. Ing babies (of oil coior) which read 'Must They Die in World War TIP" ,.. The text continues; "Yesl Un. leps you work now for lasting peace after victory" The cards ars distributed by Americans United fer World Organization, Inc. .I Transit companies in several cities are displaying them Mayor La 0uardia hoped our subway trains would do the same Tn report. ing the refusal of John IT, Delaney Chairman of the Board of Trans. poFtAtioln) the N. Y. Times said In part: Mfr. Delaney says he turned down this particular poster because it was not the local inter. est don't intend to give away free publicity to any organization seeking to promote peace on it's own, Our Government b well equipped to do thatI"
 Not of local interest,"
 Dear Mir. Wlnchelli Reference lS here made to your column, New York Mirror. Friday. July Fist, head. Bu AHtSdVb& EEUbkugHJlhI AHc 4th paragraph, beginning; "Theo. dore Roosevelt had this legend oa his Whie House desk could not be true for l am the author, and waS not even writing for living ln 1908 when Roosevelt's second term expired.
 Nov this is . small matter, fo the piece in question has no import. ance whatever. But the foremost | coiumniSt in the world should re. member one thing, The fame of hiS column justifies ( desire for iden- tification by those who get into lt. You, who scatter briiliantS like ricS at Q wedding, forget that most Of labor like c mountain to bring forth | a mouse. When Lucid Interval was published in 1888, 6 hundred lines were quoted in the reviews. But you, with unerring discernment picked the best line in the book: A plagiarist Is one who gives birth to an adopted child The source, how. ever, was listed as Anon And, frankly, didn't mind the omission | then and I don't mind the new omission now (not muchD
 'Srhe truth is, I am not here | thinking solely of myself, but of others who flutter for an ephemeral l