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New York Jou> i-American *** Thurs.,Jan.27,1944-17 ,' I'
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NEW YORK Sobol Writes to
CAVALCADE 0 a Pal Overseas
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By LOUIS SOBOL ', - i
Letter td n Soldier— before and after the broadcast, a senator, a hand-shaking ac- , /
Dear Bolo: couple of kids in the audience— quaintance with your hotel -;' .) Y
both sergeants—one had been doorman, and a sure-thing tip tij,
DON'T think it wasn't a reliefiwounded in the Aleutians fighting, on a winning nag to the man . :.,.t. ,
to get those two overdue let- the other in Sicily—well, they got at the ropes. Joey Adams and .'t~
ters—bud, I was beginning to get up and offered their precious sou- Tony Canzoneri are at the
worried. Or didn't you know I venirs in return for war bond sales. Beachcomber, surrounded by
cared? One item was a half-yen note a flock of pretty dolls wear- '., : .
• Well, as you can see from the taken from a slain Jap—the other ing costumes which I seem to •
postmark, I've been down at our a small German flag with the recall decorated the eyefuls at ; C `
old playground, Miami Beach— swastika, found on a German sol- the Copa back in New York. l
and I want to tell you I wouldn't diet's body. Joey Adams and Tony Ciro's is a good restaurant get- ,.1: Ai
have missed the great bang I get Canzoneri were the auctioneers. ting a big play—and the Little
out of seeing these boys training The final bids amounted to over Palms is about the class of the
to be fliers and ground men for $300,000. section. And, of course, there': • ,
all the gold in Mussolini's upper * * * still Joe's—and the famous ' ^:
• and lower crockery. I've been get- Maybe this bores you, chum, stone-crabs—and usually, when , i
• ting up early and whipping out but you keep writing that you he's down here, J. Edgar Hoo- r 1 1
to the corner just to get a load want me to tell you everything ver and his sidekick, too—Clyde ;
of the swell-looking kids marching that goes on of minor interest— Tolson.
by and singing all the old-timers and I fall into the trap. Mo- But none of the big names 1 ,
and a few of the newer ones. It's notonous? Okay, skip it. that used to flock down. Joe E. r
good to watch—you take it from * * * Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton
there. Here's something on the light Berle, Harry Richman, Paul :,` � -
* * * Whiteman, Abe Lyman—none
Well, our side. Swifty Morgan is down r;i .l i
part of the show here—remember him?—right out of them. One of the reasons is .,,.{ i
• , for the Journal-American's of Runyon's most fantastic yarns. the midnight curfew—no hard ,, t '
, Coast-to-Coast hook-up for the When he isn't telling of his stuff sold after the Cinderella '?y
Fourth War Bond Drive went gigantic international "swindles" hour. ', .y
over nicely. We sold $3.500,950of other years, he peddles ties. *
worth of bonds just to the peo- I Well, who should stage a one- One of the boys over at the '44
pie around the Roney-Plaza man invasion of this sunkist radio station tells me he picked
who turned out for the broad- terrain but King Levinsky, the this up on the shortwave from , --
cast. The city of Miami Beach retired pug—also with a cargo Tokio. "Upon the 12th, large
favored us, too, with a $100,000 of ties to dispose of. The boys American bombers raided North .- .,
purchase. Al Jolson went seri- thought this might call for a bit Chishima and Capt. Yokozaki
ous—so serious, as he told of of action—perhaps start a pistol received a letter of thanks from 1 . '
the guys in the fox-holes, that feud. What did happen just the commander-in-chief of that ;ti
he had most of the women didn't make sense. Swifty intro- region for dashing to meet them.
' tearful. Yvette sang and Leo duced Levinsky to some of his This has been reported to the - .-ti ;. -•
Durocher did a bit of clowning choicest suckers and urged them Throne. Capt. Yokozaki has :'- , /�i
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and then went serious,too. Clay ;to buy a dozen ties or so to give i been promoted posthumously to , /=
Bryson furnished the music• , the ex-pug a break. No one'major." • .
We thought Danny Kaye would knows this for certain—but the' * * * . l ,
get here in time—but his plane rumor now is that that night, I know more, fellow, but I've : V`{
almost crashed—and he didn't Swifty and King went off quietly got a column to write now—so '
arrive until three in the morn- into a huddle and split the take. let me call it a day. Don't keep :%
ing. What a pale-looking ghost * * * me waiting so long for your !I
he was, too—just out of sick- Most' of the old clubs and letters—outside of going on
bed—but now the old sun has restaurants are back doing busi- your missions over Berlin, what
painted him the right color. ness here—and what business! have you got to do that keeps '4
* * * To get into the Park Avenue you so busy??? :3
But, getting back to the show, takes a special letter from your —Louis.
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