The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-20

NOTES OF A NEWSPAPERMAN
 StOrk Clubman Sherman Billings ley and colyumist Leonard Lyons were in a corner of the club last night chit-chatterboxing The newspaperman pointed out Boards ley Ruml, father of the Ruml Plan . Lyons then identified a new patron, John Patrick, the author of the hit, "The Nasty Heart" .. Billingsley went over and welcomed lim into the fold Lyons then said that a novelist was among them-Mrs. Eliot Janeway Bil- kingsley introduced himself to her ard then, returning to the scribe, he sighed:
 Gee, you'd make a wonderful doorman!"
 DEAR Walter" passionately writes Burton Rascoe, Speaking of commas, the late B. L. T. (Bert Les ton Taylor to the juveniles of this journalistic generation) once quoted a dispatch in his column which iead: Lebanon, Tenn; Professor Bone, head of Cumberland Univer- Sity, today ;
 ITO which columnist Ta.lor's cation was: Taking It All in All the Comma Is the Most Important Mark of Punctuation
 Editor and Publisher, the newspa- permans bible, comments on typo graphical errors and quotes one we recently ran The bible is well come to these, which just came to our desk. From a Philly paper: "Tannhaeuser' Sunk by Metropoli- tan" From a Boston gazette: Hotel Burns. Two Hundred Guests Escape Half Glad" .. From San Francisco journal: Dead Officer on Force 18 Years" .. From a Spring field (Mass0 paper: "The annual Christmas party at the Ashley Street School was hell yesterday afternoon" From ono in West Virginia: 'The bride was gowned in white lace. The bridesmaids gowns were punk" From Kan sas sheet: "The big Sunday school picnic held Tuesday at the park was a hug success" .. From a Tex as paper: According to her com- plaint, Mrs. O'D-- says her hus- band started amusing her three days before marriage"
 Jessyca Russell relays the one about Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was small in stature. One day he attended a meeting at which all the other men were tall A friend leased Holmes with: Well, doctor, should think you would feel rather small among all these big fellows" T do," was his witty retort. T feel like dime among lot of nen- nieS"
 A group of midnighters were re- miniscing about characters and gamblers. One recalled the obser- Vation of Wm. Travers Jerome, who prosecuted Harry K. Thaw Y. All professional gamblers" said the D. A., will play honestly if things are going right, but not when they are losing" "Well,' asked listener, why did they call one of them Honest John Kelly?" MT. Je- rome took the listener back to the year 1910, when the rendezvous for gamblers and big-time sportSmen was Wakeley's Saloon on the north east corner of And and Sixth Ave- nue It was where all the celebs went, too-and one midnight the noise around the bar was silenced by the thunderous crash in the vi- cinity of a. drunk.
 Kelly" said MT. Jerome, went over and picked up something near the drunk and gave it back to him. It was glass eye"
 "so what?" asked the listener. T don't get the point!'
 That's why" added Jerome, "he was named Honest John Kelly"
 In a current magazine Dorothy Kilgallen has novelette, titled .Pygmalion Jones'" in which the hero tries to transform beautiful Brooklyn school teacher into a smooth New York glammer girl ..
 
 In the process, he gives her advice on everything from what sort of clothes to wear to what periodicals to peruse, urging her to eschew the scholarly But" she protests, T always read a little Emerson be- fore go to bed!'
 From now on," he says, you will read little Winchell."
 Love Letter Dept: From the CO., lyum of book oracle Clip Boutell: If there is any doubt in your mind about the importance of mention by Winchell in the world of books, consider these results of his recent recommendation of One God by Florence Mary Fitch Grown is the