The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-11
Covering The
Florida KEYS
BY JACK M. LEVINE

Keyseribes: SnOWblrd Keyscrlb-
bling is, perhaps, new word coin
age. We invoke this pretentious
poetic prerogative, to describe the
increasingly popular psstime of
northernewshawkS. Of late, it's
gratifying to note that more and
more prominent members of the
fourth estate are devoting more
and more newspace to Key West
and the Florida Keys. They follow
up, there and then, with graphic
word pictures of their southern
most sojourns. To keyscribble is
becoming as much fad as to
doodle. And, most aptly, they're
"YanKey" doodles.
Nick Kenny: The popular New
York Daily Mirror columniSt is ia
nous as a song writer, poet, au-
thor, and most important, for his
service in the Navy. During Gun
Gle Nick's" recent Key West visit,
he auctioned his latest book at the
Casa Marina Hotel, Presidents
Birthday Ball for the March of
Dimes Campaign. Since then Ken
ny's column in the Daily Mirror
has been replete with raves about
the Key West area. He topped
everything with his March 5th col
umning. "The most amazing thing
about our vacation this year was
the great number of CalifornianS
we met in Key West and Palm
Beach. They got tired of the rain,
fog and smog in sunny California
and decided to try Florida for a
change" commented Kenny. Then
he went on to say, ..'They raved
about the Florida sun How long
has this been going on?' " Nick
claims they asked. And he winds
up by borrowing a bit from Cod
frey. ."Be the Good Lord willing,
some day Uncle Nick is going to
have a permanent home in this
land of eternal sunshine" He OBJ.
serves that one big song hit can do
the trick. Here's a suggestion for
song title, Uncle Nick call
it "Southernmost City Serenade."
That should start you in "keywest"
Of a pretty ditty about the southern.
most city.
John Hughes: The New York
Sunday News devoted the entire
"Wheels, Keels and Wings" travel
and resorts page of its Feb. q,
1854, issue to John Hughes write
up about Marathon Shores, with
special mention that Key West is
only IS miles "south, the southern
most point in the U. S." Most des-
criptive line in the Hughes story
is zone of the most charming
paradises I've encountered in a
long time" Gets us to thinking
that if it's news to Hughes. It's
also news to use. in telling and
retelling the story of the Keys.
Frank Heating: This week
should bring an avalanche of in
quirieS from Long Islanders to the
Marathon Chamber of Commerce.
For three solid days, starting
with March 5, Heating, the Hunt
ing and Fishing columniSt of the
New York Long Island Daily Press,
carried his readers on the wings of
wondrous words. He averaged
two full, standard size, newspaper
column each day, in describing his
Florida Keysojourn.
For two days, he kept his read
ers entranced with descriptions OF
Keys fishing experiences encoun-
tered by the writer and his wife.
They seemed to be roaming up and
| down the Keys, fitting in and out
of the fabulous waters. In brief,
they let it be known that they did
some of the noblest roamin' of
them all. In his final column Keat.
ing divulsed that they had made
their headquarters at Clifford
Hicks Motel. The only technical
| correction to be made is that he
) calls it Grassy Key when in reality