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...fists." Its formal name was the Artist & Writers' Club, but to its habitues it was simply Bleeck's. Last week Longtime Owner John Bleeck. the ruddy, white-maned Dutchman who for three decades made the place on Manhattan's West 40th Street a haven for newspapermen and magazine writers, pressagents and Broadway actors, died at 83 in his Long Island home...
...Jack Bleeck sold out to a couple of Manhattan restaurateurs and retired. The name is the same, but not the clientele. "Buyers and lacquered models from the garment center outnumber newspapermen," said the New York Times last week, with a trace of regret. "There are more dress designers than cartoonists. Some of the current waiters even speak unaccented English...
...Murphy, approached by a New York Mirror reporter as he left a cab by his home, blew up: "Good God! What is wrong with you people? Let me alone! I will not say a word to any newspapermen. Go see Mrs. Murphy...
...probably-hell undoubtedly-raised, trained and encouraged more young newspapermen and writing people than any person now living," he wrote last year, in a reflective mood. If this was overstatement, none of his contemporaries bothered to correct...
...back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen are the best people on earth...