Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25


professional Musco-
vite ideologian
could make out q
charge of first-de-
gree h heresy and
there are whole stretches in which
I can detect no positive HIT line
at all.
I find Crosby, of the radio coll
urnn Of the HIT. at loss for answers
to revelations Of embarrassing facts
regarding his paper.
He speaks Of me as an aging
journalist, as aren't we all, and
far from resenting this impudence
take this opportunity TO observe
that Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid,
WHO now runs the HIT, or thinks
she runs IL, looks prettier than
ever since her hair turned white
and her age turned 60. 1 hope
have her vigOr at her age. Even
50, ] find In the reference TO the
stately march Of time, no answer
to points Of allegation by me
shout the HIT.
What ! said was that Joseph Herr
berg, the city editor, in his official
capacity appeared on a radio pro-
gram as the guest Of William S.
Gailmor, a thief, a renegade OF
journalism and of the clergy of his
faith and a preacher Of the Com
munist line in the United States.
The certified text Of this broad
cast confirmed the fact that Herz-
berg either was, or falsely conveyed
an impression that he was, an old
friend Of Gailmor, calling him
'Bilr' and being called Zoe"
On this point, Cros-
lust by would have it
that I am out of
Cussom date because it is
customary, in the
radio business, for the performers
to use the familiar "Bill'' and Joe
form, even though they be
strangers.
He says that Bing Crosby calls
Jimmy Durante 'Schnozzola, but
have to fault him there because
Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante
are not strangers as he would have
US believe that Herzberg and Gail
NOR are.
Long experience In the analysis
Of Communist documents and eds-
tOrials prompts the observation
that Crosby denies nothing. he
doesn't dare TO say that GailmOr
and his city editor were strangers
who bad just shaken hands.
might nail him on that. But he
tOsses out the idea. That seems
to be the character Of the Herald
Tribune now.
I went further and pointed out
that although the HIT had given
Gailmor praiseful publicity as a
leading worker in the political cam
paign Of Henry Wallace, it had not
once mentioned the evil facts Of
his career. I find that the defense
offered by Crosby entirely avoids
that important issue.
I do note on the positive side,
however, an attitude in Crosby
which is important to the people
who read so much about New York,
Hollywood , and Washington and
especially about the night life.
He says that Peg
Helps Ter spends much Of
N his time in Arizona,
Cn.WorLer as though, in the
ancient flippantry ci
George M. Cohan, ''When you're
away from old Broadway, you're
only camping out"
We have people in Arizona. We
have people in Texas, Louisiana
Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee
states which / have just canvassed
And would say that, as Ameri
cans. they are much better people
per capita than the people Of New
York. Fewer Of them sqnalled fol
American high-school boys to 6,
over and slaughter Germans. THEY
LET NEW YORK DO THE SQUAL
LING.
But when the fighting came of
fewer Of them. proportionately, 60
away with ruptured eardrums, q
that heroic celebrity Of Crosby's rs
dio, Frank Sinatra, did; or got ava.
with that certain mental attitude
which was noted in the case Of an
other great New Yorker, Damn
Kaye.
Reporters who stick 20 New
York become narrowly provincial,
Even the country boys among
them forget that there are people
beyond the Alleghenies and that
not more than one IN 100, ,e0t
Americans ever was inside Z
night club. They use the phone Il
speak to Washington or Hollywood
but they don't know that the sam,
phones connect with Jackson
. Miss, and FL PasO. Actually
they reflect q very low intelIi
gence on the character and Ilfl
az the peonle Of the United States