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PAGE TWENTY-FOUR THE GREENVILLE NEWS. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. MAY 1147 BLONDIE It's a WoU Loir Now By CraCX YOUNG Off The Record By Ed Reed IN BOAPWAY With WALTER WINCHELL saw. J) illllllllllllipi rnivHAT-STHE 1 Hfo tp.foIsV IP" TO MIS GlOL "tpENDS CNO? IL ff Vcd putnS JcL 7 wthout Twe whole ma3 a Nl.

-4 Notes On A Scoreboard AFTER THE HEARTWARMING Bab Ruth Day ceremonies the Yankee Stadium, one Ian (in section 18) remarked: "The Babe made ball-playing an art and he wai Its finest srtlat. Ruth la to a bat what Toscanlm la to a baton!" r. i lli Lm GASOLINE ALLEY Labor Relations By PNQ I I KAO AN PEA IT Tl ftEVi COT A I CANT 1 hX HA GOT WTH THIS IA, MM-MtJf7 SOMETHING I. TEMPEIZAMENTAt I IMAGINE IT, I I HAIR. fVE COT I NEW GARAGE, 1 F'2T0 1 IJJJZy A THAT- JZA 'T PCWN -KEEZIX' I TO POPE OUT A HE MAV THINK I I EATING KNOW, MR.

WALLET. 1,, l.v rr THE H0P, k-s-k' WAV TO PATCH THAT HACK WILL I IfARGE. WHAT HE THINK HACK 'ISTi JL. Ak NNA-4AK JMY THING UP RANK SECOND I Tg r-" closer to the truth Is the late Joseph Pulitzer's Insistence that the only position a man Is entitled to fill by reason of birth alone Is that of an Idiot." NORMAN COKWIN writes In a theatre arts mag that radio la Impervious to any kind of criticism. P.

Newspaper and public criticism of NBCensorship forced Its bluepencllers to look for the nearest hole to crawl back Into. HO-CALLED "OBJECTIVE" news-pnpermen have always glared at reporters who specialize In personal Journalism. But an editor once penned this common-sense: "It Is almost Impossible to touch a news story without giving it some editorial interpretation. The space assigned to It the headlines it will carry the page, and the position on the page It will finally occupy; the way It is written all Involve editorial Judgment. Each story represents editorial appraisal.

It is one thing to display a story prominently on page one, another to place that story in some obscure column among the advertisements on page 19." That was written by Nell Mac-Neil one of the "objective" New York Times editors. BARROWS DUNHAM'S BOOK, "Man Against Myth" (Utile, Brown), Informs that there are col-yumlsts who "In no word or sentence or line of print have ever once sided with men against the oppressors of men, ever once hinted so much as a twinge of sympathy for the weak and monstrously '1 knew you ald to be homo by tlx o'clock but I didn't know you meant Eastern Standard time." A COUPLE OK SCRIBES watched the Babe leave In the seventh Inning (with the Yanks still score-less). "The big fellow," sinned one, "miut mlx being a Yankee." "Not half so much," muttered the other (evelng the scoreboard), "as the Yanks miss him." THE BABE HAD his most disastrous season in 1923. He was afflicted with a series of injuries, and his slugging average slumped as a result But In the opening game of the World Serins the Yankees rode to victory on the Babe's mighty bat. Both Heywood Broun and Grant-land Rice beRan their stories with: "Ruth crushed to earth will rise ngaln," HOW TIMES CHANGE: Years ago Sam Crawford became a national Idol because he hit seven homers during the season 1 THEN THERE'8 THE one about the pretty-face who went to see her first ball game and arrived during the fifth inning.

She overheard a fan say: "The score Is nothing to nothing." She promptly Oracle Allen'd. "Oh, good! Then we haven't missed anything!" WHEN A BALLPLAYER was divorced by a rich socialite a newspaper headlined the story: "No Runs. No Hits. No Heiress." AD!) NEWSPAPEMAN STUFF: Charles C. Clayton's time, "Newspaper Reporting Today" (Odyssey Press), contains this observation: "There are those who assert that good reporters, like poets, are born and not made.

Some men do have an instinctive flair for news, but Another thing too high Is Taft'i News Pattern position In the gov't. THE BAD NEWS of the Moscow confab failure is put on page 1. Why not the obituary pager By GEORGE McMANUS BRINGING UP FATHER Yes, Poor JIgg WE DIDN'T COME across this yarn in any of the Henry Ford obits: When Ford was tinkering lint IT'S WOBSE-THATfe HIS HAT -HE'S IT IS STPAM6E-I HOPE HE ISMT with his first Model a grocer Invested 1 1,200 (his life's savings) in I yajnOcb what HAS HAPPENED TO JIGGS HE HASN'T BEEN) IN DIMTV'S OH- OW-THERE GOES SUICIDE-1 DON'T BLAME HIM-I MET HIS WIFE the Ford company. POOOOK5QS-I'LL MISS HM HE NEVEB PAILED TO ASK ME FOR THE MONEV I OWED HIM- ME POME COVER-NJCW I sT Years later Ford bought back the I SUPPOSE I'LL. grocer's stock for $12,000,000.

AN' WHO'S GONNA 8UV ME DC INKS AT DINTVS? THIS cm ID OAV5 TOUR CATCH COLD i CATCH COLDC 1 I 1 I 111 i(s -I BNAP-OF-THE-FINGER-ln-the- The aggregate clrcula I'LL MISS tlon of all dally newspapers In He means not all colyumlsts are America Is about 50 million. According to Time mag. this col umn's reader total 29 million. named Wincheu. TAFT (WHO HELPED kill price control) admits price are too nigh.

A N. Y. DAILY editorialist that Russia and America are lining up for a diplomatic contest, adding that among the measures America will take to stoo Russian expansion Is transferring "naval surplus vessels to China." Diplomatic contest? Why doesn't that opinion-boy come out of his THE LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS Mrs. McLean Once Used Hope Diamond As If It Were Sling-Shot At E. Roosevelt ivory tower? eince wnen ao aipio-mats fight with armed ships? Lls- iT" DICK TRACY Chase By CHESTER GOULD A WHERE IS OH.

THEV 1 llNAMOTMEO PAST OF TOWN TOOK ITf COME at, JUKJIOQ AND ILEPTWALPI I um mire tuatt Mi TOOllTFBOM ON, wcy iWHATAw-twe pest4 am hour! hJffiiPwt SCHOOLJ FELLOWS gg rst sen, Joe Doap this is war! WE'RE HAVING almost as much trouble with Stalin a we're having without Roosevelt. THE HOPE DIAMOND, the disposal of which was determined this week by the will of the late Evalyn Walsh McLean, frequently was exhibited in the night clubs of New York. Bea Lille once crawled 9001 under a table at the Stork club and found the gem there, where Mrs. McLean had lost It. Another night, at the Kit Kat, Mrs.

McLean swung it as If It were a sllng-shot, at Elliott Roosevelt. At Fere's Monte Carlo, where two detectives accompanied Mrs. McLean and her daughter, the bodyguards were asked: "Suppose one mob tries for the diamond and another mob 'tries to kidnap Miss McLekn which would you protect first?" The bodyguard replied: "We'd go for the diamond." Mrs. McLean once sent a portable radio to a friend In the hospital. The patient twisted the dials, but the radio wa dead.

He lifted it, shook It and out rolled the Hope Diamond. Abbeville Classes Feted At Banquet ABBEVILLE, May 1 The Junior-Senior banquet was given In the Abbeville High school Friday night. The toast to the faculty and guests was presented by the Junior vice president, Billy Ware, and Sunt. C. H.

Tlnsley responded. Officers of the Junior class are: President, Elizabeth Edwards', vice president. Billy Ware; secretary, Peggy Baskln; treasurer, Clarence Peeler. Officers of the Senior class are: President, John. McDorman; vice president, Mura Jean Williams; Newest darlln of the Plttall Set Pattern 9001.

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River (Swiss) 23. Varying weight (Ind.) 24. Suitcase 25. Hard spice 26. Part of the face 27.

Exalts 29. Bird's wattle rolagsTtTEWpn! tTorusTsav to DS ET El TT Lfl ME A TV I. A 0 SU Sprain Lake Golf course last weekend vow that the champ made a When one of Leopold Stokowskl's contemporaries was puzzled by Stokowskl's varying announcements about his correct age, and said: "Why would 8tokey lop off a few years?" Virgil Thomson explained: "Stokowskl is a professional beauty." At Jane Pickens' home Abram Chaslna, the pianist, listened to a discussion of Jose Iturbl. "You know Iturbi, don't you?" Chaslns was asked. He replied: "Only personally; not by reputation." THE SALE OF L.

B. Mayer's stable of horses will save MOM officials some money. Whenever word spread that Mr. Mayer was at the track to see one of his horses run, MOM officials usually rushed to the $f0 windows to bet on the Mayer entry, thereby displaying their loyalty. Mr.

Mayer always would be found at the $10 window. "Brlga-doon" is not the first musical to be Included in Burns Mantle's annual collection. "Oklahoma" and a few others made it. Maurice Zolotow, now In Hollywood, went to Universal-International, where he met a man who works for BUI Ooetz and Leo Spitz, but whose duties seemed mysterious. "What does he do?" asked Zolotow, and was told: "He spits for Ooets and gets for Spitz." MIRIAM HOPKINS, who returned to Broadway a few nights ago In the short-lived "Message for Margaret," was the glamour girl of tlie pre-war colleglates.

One night, at a Mayfalr dance, Miss Hopkins was Introduced to a Yale sophomore who asked her for a dance. While they waltzed the youngster gushed his admiration for the star, and Just as the dance ended he asked her to marry him. Miss Hopkins was startled, and extended her regrets. The sophomore repeated his marriage proposal. The star again refused him.

"All right," the youngster compromised, "then will you give me your autograph?" THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 1 heeding the pleas of the Italian government, and will rule that Milton Shubert, who bought the rights to the Puccini music, will not be permitted to make any alterations. Valentin Parera, husband of the late Orace Moore, will produce a film In Mexico. Mme. Alma Claybourgh, who has gained 35 pounds in the past few months, blames It on the bread and buttter she has with each meal. "I can't enjoy a meal without bread and butter," she sighed.

"I wish there were some organization I could Join, like "Bread Si Butter Mrs. Franz Werfel is writing a book about her husband. JOHN L. LEWIS, whose Labor promotion activities caused the A. F.

of L. to increase Its per capita assessments twice since his return, will force a third per capita increase, In October. W. Arthur Nickel, who bought an E. 81st St.

mansion with his share of the Mergenthaler embezzlement money, had a contractor rip out walls and bathrooms, to make a duplex and a triplex apartment. The new owner is reconverting It into a one-family house. The original of Miguel Covarrublas' painting of a map of California, to which Life magazine brought the reproduction rights has been lost or stolen at the Luce publications offices. JOHN RINGLING NORTH tells of a circus Juggler he employed until last season, The Magnificent Truzzl. One night North Invited Robert Benchley and some firends to see his circus.

Before the show they had a long-lasting party, at which absinthe constantly was poured into martinis, which in turn, constanly were poured Into the guests. Then they staggered to Madison Square Oarden, where The Magnificent Truzzl Juggled three plates, an axe, six torches and five balls at the same time. "And sighed Benchley, "can't even get a cuppa coffee up to my mouth." OBSERVERS WHO WATCHED Joe Louis play a round at the MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY PILLIDI 30. Incite knowledge Yesterday'! aaswer 35. Bristle-like process 38.

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