The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-07-26
So This Is New York
By North Cuuohon

Talk of the town now is the lack
of newspapers and the long lines
which daily form around the big
plants of the papers-eager readers
waiting to get their favorite sheet.
At this writing the end of the strike
is not in sight-neither is the end
of the line which forms every night
around the Daily News building. A
short while ago / vas down there
and the line of people four abreast
reached from 36th to 42nd Street
six long blocks of sweating, impa-
tent humanity. Cops shout them
back into line if they try to mooch
ahead. There is nc advertising in the
papers after you get them and it is
estimated that the radio has already
picked up $500, 900 in extra ads be-
cause of the newspaper strike.
A reader who is apparently con-
cerned with expectant fathers and
the intense worry they 60 through
over the arrival of a youngster,
sends in an item about how new
fathers conducted themselves in the
olden days. According to Marco Polo,
that much quoted oracle of the East.
in old China when a wife was de-
livered she Immediately went back
to household duties while the hus-
band got into bed with the infant
and stayed there for 40 days during
which time his relatives visited him
and there was great festivity. Now
come to think of it, men, that does
Mt sound like a bad idea. Maybe our
ancestors weren't so dumb?
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This is not supposed to be a fairy
story but there is a report Of a coun-
try editor who was retiring at the
age of IS with 100000 in the bank.
At a banquet given in his honor to
celebrate his success, he stated as
the way he did it: For IS years I
sweated and toiled 10, IL, IA and
sometimes Is hours a day in my
printshop. l worked six days a week
and very often a few hours on Sum
day. Never was I absent or late at
the office unless ill. I have not had
a vacation in the IS years that I
have been your editor and printer.
Last week a rich uncle of mine died
and left me $685. 600. I had managed
to save the other $4,000"
tt0tt
On one of those n occasions
when I visit night clubs l went with
a friend who evidently wanted to
catch up on such things. We started
at the Copacabana which has a kind
of Latin atmosphere and on this
night the South American motif was
complete. Xavier Cugat and his
orchestra were playing and dancers
in colorful south-of-th border cos
TUNES kept rhythmic time to the
smooth music. From there we went
to the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel and looked out over
Park Aveile while artificial blue
stars twinkled over u heads in
elegant festivity. Nat B~randywine
and his band also twinkled here and
polite walters served expensive food
to many who may have preferred
steaks. Thence to the Blue Angel, a
small nitery lined with velvet where
people jam in at very small tables,
listen to boogy-woogie music and an
occasional act. The veteran Mildred
Bailey who made the song "Old
Rockin' Chair" famous still holds out
here emoting sad songs in her own
palpitating way.
A young lady who lives in a hotel
here got herself into a precarious
predicament the other day. She en-
tered her bathroom not noticing that
it had just been reprinted, and clos
ed the door. After finishing her bath,
she tried to open the door but it had
stuck. She pulled and pulled but to
no avail and to her dismay she
found that the one window also had
stuck. She called out for help but
no one heard her. After an hour,
she got her big box of talcum pow
der and tried to pound the door oper,
with it. This only resulted in the
box becoming bent and the powder
filtering out and forming a cloud
which settled in her hair. Hours la
ter when some people passing heard
her frantic knocking on the walls,
they opened the bathroom and her
. - 1850 $1,000 --l. ,.yoc