The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-24

NOTES or A NEWSPAPERMAN
 Or John |. Lewis Stink Dept: During the war Lewis Mine Work CTS Journal" attacked our Allies de- noaInced the COnmander-in-C Chief and disrupted our war effort Now that peace is teetering on the tight rope the same Mine Workers Jour nal'' is curling . lip at plans to feed starving nations But the same rag shed crocodile tears and went into Q sympathy routine for Nazi war prisonersl Will somebody please get John Louse off the front pages? My nostrils ache!
 How can We expect our govt to come to an understanding with Rus- sia-when it can't even come to one with John L. Lewis?
 There have been so many strikes in this country think Bob Teller was pitching against Amer ica.
 On his recent visit to Florida Churchill was leaving Hialeah Park after winning 8 small bet on the son of . former Derby winner A gal reporter pushed her way forward and said: "Oh, MT. Chur- chill, weren't you just thrilled to have 8 ticket on the winner?"
 MT. Churchill paused and replied: %Young woman, have had bigger winners in my time."
 John Barrymore once asked his agent to lay him off for couple of weeks .. "Im sick" complained Barrymore. "I'd like to get away for two weeks"
 "All right, John," said his man. ager. why don't you run down to Philadelphia; it's quiet there" !"
 T said was sick" snapped Barrymore, mot deadl"
 The latest addition to our non- censorship collection concerns Jane Russells western film, '"The Out law" .. Blue-pencillers in Mem plis, Tenn, clapped nix on the cinema ,. It wasn't censored because of any moral objections. .. It was banned because the film con- taiIls too much shooting!
 Rankin has vilified every Ameri- can ideal. He has insulted his col- leagues. He has defamed patriotic Americans. He echoes Nazi hatred and sneerS at Democracy. He has never heSitated to islander anyone while cringing behind his Congress sional immunity. But Congress eQuanders another 75GS by tossing 1t to the Rankin Comm.
 The first time Q Trojan Horse ran tn the money.
 Add ScOOper D0opege: A. P. Sperl- Alg writes in current bantam mag: Tn the Fall of 1945 Walter Winchell raised high hopes in the minds of hay fever sufferers with advance news of new vitamin remedy. HIS grapevine information referred to Mayo Clinic experiments with new drug known as benadryl. Sev- eral months later the Minnecota Medical Center confirmed Win chell's tip. The remedy-discov- cred by Dr. s. R. Loew and his as- sociates-was hailed as giving al- most complete relief to victims of hay fever attacks"
 And the irony of 1t. One of the few hay feveriteS who hasn't found benadryl helpful is the colurnnist!
 sSecy ByTne4 friends say that he enjoys Illustrating adroit diplomacy by spinning the yarn concerning Q Trench govt official whose duty 1t was to issue passports for those who wished to go from one town to another. One day he made out a passport for 8 highly respectable lady of his acquaintance, who had only one eye.
 Not wishing to hurt her feelings, the gallant Frenchman, in filling out the description inserted the fol- lowing: Eyes, brilliant, brown and expressive; only one is missing"
 Love Letter Section: Dear wv: The 17th Bombardment Group (Me- dium) in reporting the weather to it's squadron Dijon, France) during the war, would do 1t this way. h. stead of tipping the enemy and saying weather forecast 1t would say: 'Winchell says I know this from first hand experience"
 Two foreign newsboys were giving Tranco's latest deceitful shill the once-over. Said one: "The other day Franco blabbed that the Span ish people have freedom of speech, but it Is regulated"
 a"He means" pointed out the other foreign correspondent, that any victim who is clubbed in one of his concentration camps has the free- dom O. speech to holler ouch"
 Booth TarkingtOn's obits revealed that the eminent novelist continued to dictate his books even after he lost his eyesight. Tarkington loved to write. He once counseled young novelist: The only way to