Judge — March 21, 1931 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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to unravel a case, I shall get drunker than usual and solve the case, exclu- sively for my paper. I will discover that the star reporter's girl's kid brother was framed by the gang leader, who, in reality, himself, bumped off Kelly, the cop, during the warehouse robb I know I can get this job as a re porter and do all these things if I can manage to get tight enough. That's why I'm studying to be a drunken reporter. Then I'll never have to worry about being unemployed. If I can't least I can get one in the 8. R. C. O'Brien Simile Melted away like taxies in a rain storm. And we are just as well satisfied that we weren't around last k when Mussolini 1 that Associated Press headline: Scripps-Howard Buys The World for $5,000,000. “How about that, ref? How about it?” JOB I au thinking of going down to a newspaper office and getting my- self a job as a drunken reporter. ‘They talk about unemployment, and newspaper mergers recently haven't created many new jobs, but there is ilways chance for a jiggled reporter. Soused to the gills, I am going to report for work. I am ing to stag- # n and say to the editor: “Well, were Lam, bright and early Monday morning, and T want to join the re- portori v." Then he'll reply: This is Tuesday.” And T'll ask: Whatever became of Mond: In case there might be some little doubt in his mind that Iam really the type. Tam to have my hair mussed, my overcoat collar up and a xin bottle protruding from my pocket. If that doesn't him, I'M le 5 Il go downstairs and phone him and tell him there’s going to be a big mur- der shortly. After that it will: be mere formality to call again, name my own terms, and get the job. I'll tell him my nose for news is so long I get things in advance. Of course, after T have the will be necessary for me to b to parties all the time. I will be on the scene of every murder with my confréres, furnishing comic relief in the form of wise cracks, which will greatly brighten the rather sordid de- tails of each and every killing. When the slow-witted detectives fail