The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1943, Page 6

| hice SIX THE KBY* WEST CITIZEN | SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1943 ois PES TAGE oe oe ; ’ ! toto ir fe she waved in friendly fashion at ERR lee, and has been. forced publicly’ plural subject with a singular nent data ur it reflects glory INJURED, WALKS MILE la flyer skimming over her house, to admit error and bias. verb. on his bureau. *s FOR AID SLIGHTL OFF THE RECORD only to look again and see the ris- How an agency largely staffed Press Agent Stuff The desk men at OW. —_——— ing Sun painted on the plane, a! ; by competent newspapermen can! as Bae eer ee eae ences a LINDSAY, C. While with EMILIE KEYES yellow face looking down at her} By JOHN GROVER \commit a series of glaring boners! The stories submitted to OWI ject his copy, anc ist it tell . NDSé a — While (From The Palm Beach Post-Times) ~ |... ‘The next morning the whole! WASHINGTON, June 12—The/that would shame the average ®"¢ Prepared by paid press agents. Rah tae kas hl ee Se ae island seemed to rock from the ex- Office of War Iniormation has|journalism student has puzzled, They don’t give the agency t ; ions for All” pampt YEO OA AA LALA ERALEN| Diosions from the field . . . “Were’ several “times got its official tail) observers in Washington. It’s a pays their salaries any the wors fo Ss one a “a € gun discharg- KEY WEST. — Though close; ed in deep, boiling lard, these are|we surprised?” she echoes . . .' caught in the Congressional wring- /long story. j lof it. Some of them follow the Tr rea icies € shot passing through his to each other at home for | made of black-eye pea, flour, gar-|“For months we had known rela- A TIGR NGS r | Efforts have been ‘made to put prudent rule of buttering the boss, a and chest. Aik he ‘a local telephone call or a drive lic, onions, salt and pepper” . . . I'd tions between the countries were sunlight filtering through its lacy! aj) the blame on New Deal ideal-| with fulsome flattery. In normal : For fl C i ia mile and a quarter’te a that wouldn’t have infringed much | byen frightened off by the deadly | strained, but that was nothing un- fronds . . . But he ought to have’ jsts in OWI. Such ah assumption newspaper practice, the copy desk ees es : house. He suffered from ‘on an A-coupon, Nancy Shea and | look of the ones I'd been offered usual . . . It's just as surprised as|liked the free boxing match stag- is unfair. Dat ol‘ Debbil “system”| would butcher out this personal oe ae eas ik = shock and loss of blood Thad to go to Key West to get ac- | from a greasy paper bag’ (though youd be here, .if,after months of ed in Duval gtreet the other late/that works so pondefously in the .goosegrease. Not so at OWI, where a f i a in Pre T —— eee qQuainted . . . The last few weeks/a certain ~ West Palm Beacher!| t#Ik Wat one mdfning you woke! evening, when’ one ‘man almost} government is the villain. | the hogtied copy desk can’t change Be ae Pre ee ve a more-tha little tired of bed at the office were. so beset ge oe he pet eh faahaserie acoso bas a Bae oe vee teal ane eae ee pied ba-|* Patterned After. Newspapers! 2 lettey ;without anguished moos ‘) ‘TOM & Prvss raw around to an| delicate stomach, eats‘a bag every | you ?\. . “The very} trol and locai poiice . . . Everyone. 7 ~ is rt ofrem. the sacred cows. st daydreams. There's worg Geren MNO tus charming |nieht; aya they argcthe only|night beforeRjiy. husband and I on our side of the hotel was ag | pater dat Be eerceer| oe the OWI ciearance a es Say Taek Hes SONY Hoa OWI chiefs are demand- colonel’s lady, not only re-| things he likes here)... but that| had sat in “ou tio, drinking ing out the :windows, with ring-| Puitorial ‘offi¢e.” ‘ogee it is so! tem,.it, usually takes eight he out his permission g—and soon will get—ample calls, Pearl sae rom horrify-|was before I encoufteréd” those| coffee, talking abo' ia [ela Bazmalineale ENC hedgedabout “with réd‘tape that for a story t6 win approval from There are indxatsifas that OW! rity to do a job ‘ ing, ‘vivid first’ h experience, | from Pancho’s, thanks to Nancy; {ul year we had had if®Hawaii,! Ef but who has to her credit three/Shea .. . Pancho is a thin, wiry | the best of our'21 years of married} There's a legend’ to the effect Foe peatk f, matey (fected This i Fates grip v ont books af timely® as the current little Conch, who speaks Spanish] life, speaking of thé! uniltteratge that in the eurly days, Key West-/ "72% Gh!" OPS SSM onttict and ill-feeling between OPA announcements . . What. -. but between him and his wife,|Peace and beauty of the quiet ers announced births in the family! For Pema egos erie ORY 2 ae Tvona attacks trivial res started out tovbe aefriendly, cas- he made it clear that his tiny; Might around us ...I never saw by putting a conch. shell on tiie) eee eee ee nee: Or S| ont releabe, it’ was mentioned tio sasiecies by daca Hotel, front porch shop doesn’t begin|# ™ore beautiful, peaceful morn- front porch . . . The way the stork | Newspaper, a copy desk is charg- ore escbe peeeeans when she came down to Key West! business until 6 p. m. ... It was| ing than that of Dec, 7, when I is flapping its wings these war- GC. with. caeeiog ang: Filling Be eaenate Some mental giant bh a 24-hour business trip, turned then 5:20 and Mrs. Shea was|89t UP early to see my husband|time days, I doubt if there'd be| Grammar, ettors of fact and pet) e 4 : e i epi written into the ,2l0ng the clearance line wrote in | : into a gala ay ion... For the!scheduled to leave at 6 . . .| ff to early duty at the Field ...”;cnough shells to go around . . ./S9na opiblonS men into Me! “except strin His correction WHEN IT’S JOB farmer, was whipping boy fer other than a ce i evening she a, here chanced, Through the medium of an in-| There were five successive at-| There really were early days for | story by. ie porter | necessitated a long check with a to be the same*day’ that het hus- gratiating pidgin Spanish shej tacks that morning, each a twenty, Key West... The island was) The copy desk has complete au-' wpp materials branch, half a pand, Col. Augustine Francis| got the idea cross and he brought} ™inutes of hell on earth . . . The' ranted to Juan Pablo Salas for| thority. A reporter can cry his’ dozen other clearances, and the Shea, of the Army Air Forces,'out his iro skillet, pumped ma first, Mrs. Shea and the Filipino S¢tVice to Spain in 1815; sold by| eyes out over the way the desk! story was found originally cor- landed in Sanigibtane’se0 after a the gasoline stove, invited us e bbuse tian spent in a: doorway, nim to John W. Stnontory of Mo- | buitiers Bis story, Put unless. bel rect j ear and a half “somewhere in sn.ell the batter and ok to: Saak which she had been told was a oe for $2,000 in 1822 and faker, on prove the desk editor is cold One Sided Sitios i | REMEMB a Bacttic?... |" cn his pidgin English, by safe place in time of earthquake; °V® by Lieut. Perry the same /| turkey wrong, the revisions stick. | . cas wee = ER 5 E glish, he got ji year as part of the territory ceded! In short, no copy is sacréd and no|_ It’s a basic rule in normal news- Mrs, Shea had-hurried through’ across the idea that. the only| the Second in the mud under the . : 4 as gl that both sides race ° her dinner so that we might take yeal accompaniment for pollos porch; the third in a barricade of ‘© the U.S. by Spain ... The Ma-) writer is a sacred cow who can Papering that both sides of a story There is no JOB ‘i ight-seei Sea 4 +, Tines arrived in 1824...The town write no wrong. | must be given “in controversial ; oS, habia Ne see ag ona aban traipsed back to une seas P et was incorporated in 1828... Add, It’s different for the copy desk issues. However. when Agency A} Too Large ead thls utes lid dity: She a Concha’s, bar; with our eriag. isGae 1 was atierly Gtiatsts misgellane : in ae eS men at OWI. They're vulnerable | is involved in a disoute. seldom| asa inost satisfactory passenger, | ‘Pe hot booty, “"and’ TrhbStT eq and fatalistic by then,” she eg- 25 Loebe Pode” ‘Sena ;|little fat boys in a:pastyre full of |does its press agent.include perti-' fj) and il of enthusiasm to’ capture the oe we jieren t. .even lite | plains, “I decided that if I/was to tween here and Miami. . . | Puchy sacked cows, whith are the | — | No SERVICE Tes Small spirit and charm of a strange place aha fi 2 ot some for .M , I'd rather do’ it in .my own SuIHIGL Sther federal bureaus. | iy +, But far more interesting than 5%¢#'s-friend “whos -was » dr fouse, that if Gus had been’killed, || © ed fot X OW! is.a clearing house for fed-| ‘STRAND THEATER te the sailor-crowded main thorough- her up to: Miami that » evening! only hoped it would be over the iness of most of the ie ops information from 9ther bu-| the southernmost house, or ° - Properly made they re-i quickly for me, too” . . . But it houses . . . that there was former+ | #eaus, save only the armed forces. HENRY FONDA in | the signs that make Key West an S@Mble fried scallops. in’ size and} wasn’t over for either, and there !¥ an ordinapce automatitally| The other: agancies. are the “re-| «THE BIG STREET’ armed city, was the telephone call looks, taste; like » . . wel, like|were 18 more nightmarish days '#'5ing taxes if houses were paint-| porters” 8 Ga ated mation set-| e i that awaited her on our return to pels : : ‘1 Until she was-unceremoniously or- a Pe to prevent the spare es hed oe Pes wate stuff, and for-| Coming: “CHINA GIRL” igi am from San In between times, I managed | dered off the island home togeth 0 from keeping up their homes|ward it to for final clear-j ‘4s ana Francie iad tea Mer from {0 get some picture of the helllwith all the other women and 24 making the rest look shabby |ance. But the OWI can't even cor-| The Citizen Building Palm Beach to Miami, from Miami that was Pearl Harbor .on Dec.| children ... and left on a ship that , 7 Contrast . . . j¥ect mistakes in grammar or ob-; PHONE 51 to Key West to announce the glad 7, 1941 . . . Many of you havejzig-zagged through submarine- = | vious factual’ errors without per-' NROE THEATER —* tidings that her husband was once probably heard Mrs. Shea tell it) filled waters’... During those days Note to travelers: Please be! mission of the originating agency. | M0 more safe on the United States more graphically and engross-| after the bombing she realized the °2"¢!U! about careless carrying off) They tell of a girl scribe for one | ERS i mainland, that very shortly they ingly than I could relay the story,|need of a Women's Army Auxil- 0f hotel keys .. . They can’t be re-| bureau who squawked murder Seen sce would be reunited for the first though it held me, fascinated, iary Corps in times of great stress ere: today, and as a result a about the “violation” of her copy ‘The Major and the Minor’ time since she was evacuated even when it was sandwiched in| when there is not sufficient man- hace ae ne the rooms in this hotel when an OWI blue pencil jockey y from Hawaii with two hours’ no- between the rhumba music at;power... abe ees OR |Suggested it was’ wrong to use tice on Christmas day 1941... Habana-Madrid and the popping rah ever Ge diabs Mac | Happy landings to both Colonel | ¥ 5 RS Fee kt OES we took her to Habana Ma- ‘of the gr in Pancho’s tiny | Sh i ae: BEE ——- } H of the grease ¥ | Shea and his lady. BUY WAR BONDS i ames Buy More War Bond: Saent om local night life © cud pee that Dearing ‘mb Del Ploeckelman’s gunning ton | 3 6é ‘toast the colonel and their fell on Honolulu, that the attack!me . . . After reading my earlier Holtsber § : e The Store of F. ashion ez was concentrated entirely on,column on the charm and spirit Chas. Aronovitz DEPARTMENT STORE Be Coolly Groomed in er tour, this time with a contrary to our usually confused’a job . . . Instead of thinking me j ord Navy wife, seeing much jdeas of geography:..and the crazy about Key West, he secret- hat should be of value to her in Shea quarters were.‘only a: few ly thinks I'm crazy, period . . . Oh,' her future writings and in her re- blocks from that field . . ; That is well, I guess i can’t expect most. | wats iif ts Kia i Loe te why it seemed to her as though men to get a kick, for instance, to-date .. . She is the author of jhe world really; . to. an out of the stained glass beauty; “The Army Wife”, the co-author end that a BAR aL wheA of a royal poincina tree with the of “The Navy Wife” in collabora- tion with Anne Briscoe Pye, wife Ser! of Vice Admiral W. S. 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