Dear Diary,
I pasted pictures of Bob in my scrap book today until I thought I couldn’t possibly have any more to put in. So I counted those I had already put in, the the grand total was twenty. It seemed more like twenty thousand, because I was so careful with each one, and took so much time in between pictures to press them so they wouldn’t curl. In other words, I still have about a thousand more pictures to paste in.
Garry Moore pulled a pretty cute gag tonight. He said, “Jimmy, do you know what the little kitten said when he saw some people playing tennis?” Durante replied, “No, Junior, what did the little kitten say when he saw some people playing tennis?” Garry: “My mother’s in that racket! “
Dear Diary,
I believe Garry (ain’t I getting informal?) was a little better tonight than he was last week. Jimmie Durante took over Howard Petrie’s job as assistant to Garry in the “I got a new job” department, even though Howard’s still with Garry. I never did especially care for Durante, but it’s kind of cute the way he calls Garry “Junior.” It’s like Bing’s calling Bob “Junior,” only in a repulsive sort of way. Incidentally, Garry’s “new job” was, (it took six minutes to say it, the way he does it) “I’m the punk who dunks skunks and monks for the gink who shrinks minks and links in a four-story fur storage store in a tiny town in Tennessee called Tacoma.”
By the way, Bing sounded like he was feeling better tonight. But he didn’t mention next Monday with Robert.
Dear Diary,
Garry Moore is really getting up in the world. The Abbot and Costello show is going off the air temporarily until Costello recovers from a severe case of rheumatic fever. In the meantime another show will take its place- a show boasting Garry Moore as master of ceremonies, and whisperingly admitting that Jimmy Durante is the star. However, that will be short-lived. Bob will be getting a new and dangerous competitor, but I believe Zoot Snoot can take all comers. He’s managed to stay on top of the gag-heap so far, so I guess he can continue to do so, if he tries.
Muriel Windham's Diary 