The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-11
NOTES OF A NEWSPAPERMAN

pilc blhuli bOIIlp- voyage VIII 50 down in the books as the press junket of all time Of the IT'S correspondents, 50 are on the way back They admit they just went along for the ride The public relations officers outnum- bered the reporters two to one. So uneventful was the trip (ac- cording to some) that one jour naliSt cabled his paper two "eX- citing stories that came out of his dreams Another wrote his reactions to the blast the day be- fore the bomb exploded One veddy, veddy gazette wired it's sci ence editor (Who was on Admiral Blandy's Flagship to quit giving lectures to the brass hats and send in more copy :. So he cabled his paper every day tat terrific ex- pense) the Navy handouts his paper could have gotten right from Washington.
 A femme correspondent in Japan Cfor ladies magazine in the USA) was so touched by the innocent looking face of 19-year old Geisha gal that she clipped in with an- other correspondent ito buy the girl her freedom for 100 Ameri- can bux She listed her share on her expense account and. as gag, wrote her editor that the mag azine lis now part owner of a Jap anese Jezebel' The magazine saw no humor in this The item was disallowed, and the gal correspondent got a curt note warn ing her such antics could prove extremely embarrassing to the staff as well as the periodical.
 The Signal 30' in the middle of the night Cat filth Street and the Mair Drag started thrilling man. hunt The gun play killed a patron at the Mayfair Bar rail, wounded a helpful citizen and one of the cops and collared two of the three gunmen. who were shot in the chase =. The hunt for the as- sassin was led by Police Commis- sioner Wallander, who appears on the scene with regularity no matter
 
 It was 8 thrilling episode for a visitor to our feverish midst :. His name Is Sam Davis of the Louis- vile papers, here for the Elks Con- vention, by cracky . Davis was passing when the barrage began. He phoned his editor. That's how Louisville scooped the Major League.
 When Senator Robert Wagner was Supreme Court Justice tin New York, the Hearst newspapers scored scoop after scoop until Wagner suspected leak on the Grand Jury The fact: Hearstareport- CT John Winkler had a social per- sonality that was equalled only by his reportage talent Winkler it appears, played golf regularly with Wagner and during the walks from tee to tee wangled the inside story on almost everything that happened.
 To this day (the colin is as sureO. Wagner didn't know he Chimself) was the lead-untll his sec'y showed him this.
 Tn Sherwood Anderson's auto biography he recalls an interesting bit of Drejserana F. Scott Fitz- gerald had great admiration for the di-ginguished author 7. AL thougu he had never been intro duced, he decided to pay his re- spects Fitzgerald rang the doorbell
 Hello" said Dreiser Hello, D said the promising young novelist. I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald 4Yes?'i' question marked Dreiser, not recog- nizing the name.
 I'd like to present you" said Fitzgerald. with this bottle of champagne" Thanks" mur- mured Dreiser politely-and taking it, shut the door in Fitz's face.
 Literary License My Eye Dept. A researcher found this in Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper of Dec. IS, 1855 .. It is called Lit erary License Prof. Longfel- low has been detected in rather bare-faced plagiarism =. His new Indian poem of Hiawatha turns out to be nothing more than an ingenious paraphrase of Kalewala the great national epic of the Films The proofs of the theft (as given in the Washington National Intel lingencer) are so cleaf that We are curious to see what defense the Professor will make tThe book is at the Public Library, And Street Branch, in Room 3l5)
 In Ciro's, Paris, one night (wher huge jewels were the rage) Wo- man created tremendous Sensa- tion by coming in without a single ornament <. Then simplicity be- came the vogue, and iU was not until much later that the press found she had to pawn her gems Fannie Ward, the ageless one had a great collection of jewels Once she wore pearls (pendants) from her ringSl Mabel Boil famed for her huge stones, once hao a jacket made of gold mesh.
 In the Winter Garden one nigh woman said to her husband Gar authority on jewelry): There is 2 woman here wearing an emerald ring a. mile wide and mile long wonder who she is?"
 She's either Geraldine Farrar ol Mrs. Blank he said. They art the only persons In the world whC have emeralds that size"
 The lady was La Farrar
 Excerpts from Texans letter T covered the Texan Capitol once While Pappy ODaniel was backed by some of the richest oilmen il Texas he had the gall to pass ou