Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the Times-Herald killed all but nine of 28 Winchell columns. He took an ad in the Washington News: "Attention Mr. and Mrs. Washington, D.C. A certain Washington newspaper, whose initials are the Washington TH, omits considerable material from the column I write for King Features Syndicate. The omissions are usually about certain so-called Americans, pro-Nazis and pro-Japs...
Help Wanted. In a Rocky Ford, Colo, newspaper appeared an ad: "If you find a pair of boy's brown leather gloves lost near the library, please call Bobby Smith. You will save me a good whipping...
...crisply at "Remember Pearl Harbor" and those other football songs. Perhaps next week there'll be room for it. . . . Count Basie's. "Harvard Blues" has sold over a hundred copies at Briggs and Briggs. That means twenty-five cents for George Frazier. Basie's publicity department ran an ad in Variety calling it "the year's most publicized record"; I imagine they must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five years ago at that. When sober, Berigan...
...paralysis which has crippled his left hand, retired from the stage after 35 years of chatty clowning, juggling, prestidigitation, acrobatics. Born Joseph Lopez, orphaned son of a Spanish father, Irish mother, at 17 the kewpie-faced "one-man vaudeville show" announced his arrival on Broadway in a full-page ad in Variety; last week he said farewell the same...
...reductio ad absurdum lies in the Red Cross' refusal to accept Negro blood donations. To add to these inanities by sending colored troops to Southern training camps is a point of friction that can and should be avoided...