Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Liqhts Of New York
by L. L. Stevenson

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at present. With him is his wife,
Winnie Henderson, English musical
comedy star, who expects to be-
come a mother in June. The other
day, Captain McCarthy's close
friend, Nick D'Amico, the orches-
ira leader, invited him to come over
to his apartment and 60 out to din
ner with him. Captain Mccarthy
lives at Broadway and Sixty-third
street and D'Amico lives at Fifth
avenue and Fifty-ffth street, a mat
ter of eight blocks south and three
east. Two hours after the appointed
time, D'Amico received a phone
call from Captain Mccarthy. The
officer whose business it is to navi-
gate planes over watery wastes was
stranded in Brooklyn-lost.
Safety First: In his early student
days in Poland soon after he had
defied his family and run away to
study to become a singer, Alex
ander Kipnis, now the well-known
basso, was invited to dine at the
home of a hospitable fellow student
who was a member of Russian
minor royalty. On the groaning
board everything of the most luxuri-
Gus was to be found. When some
luscious Strawberries were passed,
Kipnis looked at them longingly but
shook his head in refusal. "Why,
MI. Kipnis," said his host, "don't
you like strawberries?"
81 dote on them," replied Kipnis.
"Then why don't you take some?"
"I'm afraid" answered the aspir-
ing opera star sadly, ''that if I did,
I'd spoil my appetite for ~prunes."
Pioneer: S. S. Mcclure, who is to
be awarded the Order of Merit, with
gold medal and $1,000 in cash, by
the National Institute of Arts and
Letters for exceptionally distin-
guished civic work in connection
with the arts, was the founder of the
first literary syndicate in this coun-
try. AS editor and publisher of the
Gefunct McClure's Magazine, Nc
Clure, now 81 years old and vir-
tually unknown to young America,
not only started the "muck raking"
school but also introduced to the
American public Rudyard Kipling,
Conan Doyle, James M. Barrie and
Robert Louis Stevenson. Mcclure
was a great friend of Stevenson and
so stimulated his interest in the
South Pacific that he was induced
to go there for literary purposes.
Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard
Baker and Ida M. Tarbell were
among MClure's staff writer's.
Like Old Times: The trial of
Wayne Lonergan, which resulted in
his conviction for wife Staying and
a sentence of from 35 years to life,
demonstrated the fact that the day
of the scoop, or beat, is not a mere
memory in the newspaper world.
Some of the reporters were care
fully instructed in how to close the
door of a phone booth so that it
could not be opened from the out
side. Signals, so that the verdict
could be communicated to a man
stationed near a telephone, were
practiced diligently. When the YER
dict did come in and reporters
rushed to the press room to flash ,
their offices, they found that the ;
discs had been removed from all
telephone transmitters, except one.
Then, too, the wire leading to the :
office of n of the press associ-
atoms was cut. There were also
other tricks strongly reminiscent of '
old times.
Solved: Stanley Melba told me this r
one, so stop him if you've heard it
before. A poor nut was complain I
ing that he couldn't sleep nights be-
cause he woke himself up with his L
snoring. cts TERRIBLE" he told a 4
every time I doze off, I V
start to snore and every time l (,
'nore, I wake up" After a few s
weeks, he stopped complaining and Il
lis friend asked him if he had solved n
lis problem. "Oh, everything's fine il
low," declared the cerebrally feeble
me, 81 sleep in another room" O.
Cuff Notes: Times Square grind o.
louses" will revive "Wake Island ii
When the marines pay back the Nips o
here Guy Lombardo's contract
With Decca calls for 125 discs an T
lually Kate Smith is prob :
bly, the nations top launcher-she's
aunched nine ships and sponsored
hree fighting planes, all three bear r;
1g her name =. The Sammy Kaye ec
rev has taken on weight with the tv
edition of Chubby Silver - he
veighs a mere 300 pounds W
FUCKERS, be-deviled by the sharp of
Use in ~hi-jacking of shoe ship it
lents, r trying to circumvent cc
thieves by shipping all right OF
hoes at one time and all lefts at st
according to F. F. Stani-
,rd, president of Mack-Inter- di
ational Motor Truck corporation. sh