Jan 28, 2013
Former Sydney bureau chief, Blake Murdoch, has kindly sent us the following batch of old photos that he came across recently. We felt they might be of interest to share with all the muggs and Simesite followers, so we have posted them.
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Thanks to Mort Bryer, we are able to offer you all this charming bit of Memorabilia which he caught on his TV set in Connecticut, and which his son, Peter, was able to transmit to us. In it all the ex-muggs can catch a heretofore unknown (to us, at least) glimpse of what the old office on 46th Street looked like back in 1943.
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Excerpts from the Variety reporters’ hit columns
by ARMY ARCHERD
Jan. 9, 1959 | View PDF
GOOD MORNING: Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher were very much in L.A. last night, champagne-toasting each other at Chasen’s, when the Mirror-News headlined she was a patient at Menninger’s clinic in Topeka. Miss T’s comment on the false yarn: “THIS I’m not going to take sitting down. Watch out!”
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by Mort Bryer and Frank Segers
The 46th Street office in Manhattan was for years the magnet to a broad assortment of eccentrics, out of work performers, press agents and other dubious urban species. Among the most memorable of these was Izzy Grove, who operated a poster-placement business in New York, and occasionally booked small ads in the Weekly on its behalf.
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I am still reeling at the sight of those Norman Scherer tapes. What a find for Simesite!
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