The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
Along broadway
By WALTER WINCHELL
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And lose the shining vision of the past.
No one can take the road to yesterday,
No one can hope that olden songs will last
Yes, there was moonlight on an erie
Yes, there were streets that held a misty
But it is done-the golden bells are still,
We who were wise are shaken and insure.
Yet who can gauge what lies beyond the
bend?
There may be love and faith and certain
There may be beauty, constant as a friend,
There may be lamplight On a haunting face.
Give me your hand. The hill ahead is steep,
But We may have a lovely tryst to keep!
Don VAIN
New Years Thawts: Another birthday for
the world reminds you it has outlived every
tyrant who ever thought he could destroy
it. Here's hoping the New Year gives you
a better life and your life makes it a better
world. Here's hoping the New Year lives
up to your hopes-and you live up to your
ideals. 1t will be a happier New Year If
we give each other the happiness we expect
to get. Here's wishing the United States
a Happy New York.
Sign in a midtown repair shop: W fix
everything but football games"
Director Peter Godfrey says he overheard
this: An ambitious film actress was grous-
ing to a fading star about her contract.
1T inks me" she said, 'to think I get
only $50, 900 a picture"
Nice irk if you can get it," was the acid
answer.
The Russians may be talking about dis
armament, observes j. Elinson, but so far
they haven't wasted any metal making dis
charge buttons.
A Wag is Born: When Luther Adler left
ga Flag Is Born Ito ill a contract in a
Ben Hecht movie) he learned his replacement
Jacob Ben-AmD couldn't do so for three
days. That meant the cast would have to
adjust itself to an understudy until Ben-Ami
could make it.
So Luther wired Hecht (author of the pro-
Palestine play requesting permish to stay IN
the show another half week. Hecht replied:
Leave at once. The Jews have suffered so
long. Let the cast suffer a little"
You've Met Them: At the stork a we'll
known, big-headed couple had reached the
stiletto stage.
you're selfish; that's your troubled" she
knitted.
why, honey he protested, 81 think of
you all the time!"
Sure" she snapped, chats SO easy!"
chandler, Arizona: Dear Walter" passion
ately telegraphs Ely Culbertson, author of
this week at San Marcos Hotel here to a
Vassar beauty and intellectual, graduated
June. She dedicated her Life to world peace.
Romance born at Chicago Peace Rally where
l was a speaker and she a delegate for
Students Comm FOR U. N. Reform. Holding
scoop for you as you nice 10 me long time
Ely
Fine scoop. What's her name? Didden yez
ever hear in the newspaper biz, to be a re-
porter, you gotta know the six VS.?
Who, What, Where, When, Why and Walter!
Love Letter Dept: The following editorial
in the Miami Daily News is the first one
eve ever saw in an opposition gazette that
didn't call us a naWtee, naWtee boy. Hey,
Nom! Looka!
"a national broadcast appeal by Walter
Winchell last night for a blood donation to
save a stricken Dearbo>a, Mich, man in a
Miami hospital offers this community a les
son-and the nation fresh evidence for the
superior Hooper rating of Winchell. For
him, the overwhelming response to his appeal
must have provided both humane and pro-
fessional satisfaction.
mot only was a donor at the hospital here
within a few minutes-to be followed by an
estimated 500 more-but radio stations, hospi-
tails and air lines from coast to coast were
swamped with sympathetic applicants. Here's
an orchid, Walter!!"
Thank you very much. But if it weren't
for the alert and humane city desk at the
Miami Herald. we wouldn't have been able
to share in one of the most exciting assign
ments in our 26 years On the papers.
Memo from the American B'casting news
room. Radio City: "Over 1000 calls in first
hour from every State. Those were the ones
able to get through!"
'Miami, Fla: Thanks from the bottom of
my heart for aid on blood plea. Husband do
ing better. Mrs. Rudy Kovarik."
From page So of "Religio Journalistici," by
Christopher Morley: 'For the world is fasci-
mating and painful beyond human power of
testimony. The best of every lie is imprint
able. If one we're suddenly given five minutes
warning before sudden death, five minutes to
say what it had all meant to us, every tele-
phone booth would be occupied by people try
ing to call up other people to stammer that
they loved them
telegram: "God bless America. 1t is as
great as the response of so many willing to
help another amply proved! S. M. Bilder-
back"
Some OF us were discussing Mrs. FDR's
plan to press for admitting 200, 900 displaced
persons.
Oh" argued a bigot, there's not enough
room in America"