Radio: Flash!

At the close of Walter Winchell's weekly newscast last week the announcer handed him a news item hot off the teletype. Datelined Moscow, it read: "The Berlin radio reports that Adolf Hitler has been killed while inspecting Eastern Front defenses."

Winchell's eyes bugged, his mouth fel open, his hand shook. The FLASH of FLASHES had arrived just too late. He was off the air. "Damn those — — —!" he shrieked. "It always happens to me! I'm being framed!"

Some time later Winchell calmed down sufficiently to hear the news that the great...

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