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Philip Stack was a gas-company clerk when he sent his first shy offerings to Winchell. Winchell all but scared Stack away by giving him a byline. After that Stack was billed as the Melancholy Don, Kid Kazanova, Don Wahn, or Donna Wahnna -all trademarks of a kind of heartburn that became a regular Winchell symptom. Winchell never got a bill from him, never paid him and never met him, but the verses got Stack his greeting-card...
...festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing." Shy, sandy-haired Clarinetist Luter, in fact, learned jazz during the war by listening to old King Oliver records...
...journalists (even the women at the well) select facts. The myth, or fad, of "objectivity" tends to conceal the selection, to kid the reader into a belief that he is being informed by an agency above human frailty or human interest...
Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...
...They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates his job on a newsmagazine (Miller once worked eight weeks for TIME) and chucks New York...