Of course, the movies would have to wreathe their own particular· brand of tinsel around tho news game. But we are quite hardened to the mirages of ''reel'' life. They dress the reporter up in a straw hat and a whiskey breath, clamp a blooming gardenia in the editor's lapel and make work a simple little thing of three hours a day with golf and poker pleasantly diverting tho editorial mind while the cub expertly solves the baffling murder of the night before. And the cash customers swallow it whole and envy the scribe.