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...last week Sullivan got his chance in a guest appearance on Manhattan radio station WMCA. He pointed out that Winchell has been calling Negro Singer Josephine Baker* pro-Fascist, Communist-guided, anti-Jewish and even anti-Negro since she charged that the Stork Club had refused to serve her food (TIME, Nov. 12). Cried Sullivan: "I despise Walter Winchell for what he has done to Josephine Baker. Long before [Senator] McCarthy came into the character-assassination racket, Winchell was one of [its] originators . . . This small-time vaudeville hoofer who never even got to the Palace . . . has developed into a small...
Incident at the Stork...
TIME'S Nov. 12 piece on the Winchell-Baker-Stork-Club fiasco rates three loud cheers. Your treatment of racial-prejudice incidents has always been excellent. Also nice blow for the misused word "discrimination." It used to be a handy one. And may Sugar Ray Robinson's "Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods, or I'll have to let you have it," be remembered favorably with Joe Jacobs' candid "I shoulda stood...
...hope that Miss Baker and Mr. Robinson are not trying to buy their way into the Stork Club by giving to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. The $80,000 which they recently gave to the fund could have been contributed to Negro organizations...
...course it's a pity Miss Josephine Baker did not get her filet mignon at the Stork Club just when she ordered it, but I don't think the incident is enough to send half the nation rushing about bellowing self-righteously in all directions as if the steak had been cut from their own hindquarters. Am I morally obtuse, or is there really a menace to the American Constitution entrenched on 53rd Street...