Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-11

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That is some kind Of commentary
ON the situation. but I'll have to
leave it to the professors .... A
woman. sound asleep on bench
in Grand Central. Armful OF pack
ages beside her. showing edges OF
fine linen. soiled. Poor, tired SOUL
homeward bound with Park ave
nue's daintieS. to be washed and
ironed and nobody TO wake her
for her train Pincus Shrank,
taxi driver. has learned how to win
friends. I'm doing fine, Mister.
Business is good. but 1 hustle for
it. Regular riders. l cater TO EN-
and treat 'em right, and that's why
I'm not on relief" It's tonic to
hear someone talk like that d.
Crowd laughs in Times Square, as
a frail girls hat goes high in air
with the wind and lands on top
of beer truck, block away. But
the girl is crying. She carries
Times under her arm, folded with
Help Wanted" page outward
hat may mean to her!
Three TedS: Saucier. with round
faced seriousness and retreating
hair-line, who made hockey what
it is in Manhattan Roosevelt,
slim and ironically smiling, always
with two or three books under his
arm woodward, good-humored,
youngish publisher, with friendly
smile and pondering eyes.
Personal: Taking over and car
rying on Odd McIntyre's column, 1
am stimulated and heartened by
good wishes that are pouring in by
letter, telegram, and word of mouth
from friends, from readers of my
old columns, from the home town
folk, and more especially from
multitudes of Odds friends. From
the Squire Maucks and DR.. Charles
HolZer (the latter by telephone)
of Gallipolis, from Beulah and Harry
Cooney. old schoolmates. From Ken
meth and Virginia O'Brien, of
Bridgeport. From Harry Silvey and
Gene Buck, Barrie Payne and Louis
Levand, Anne Parenteau and jim
mie Fidler. From the Incompatible
Eddie Rickenbacker and from my
gracious friend, Major Bowes. From
a legion of the circus people and
old friends of my friend, Dexter
Fellows, and from so many good
folk in Georgia, California, Kansas
and Arizona that those four states
alone would make a scrapbook of
felicitationS. Thanks, good friends;
you force me to do my best.
Passing of William H. Lawrence,
the painter and engraver, reminds
that he had two careers. He lost
the use of his right hand when he
was al. He was top-notch illus
traitor and Wood-cut artist. He re-
tired from public view and learned
to draw and paint with his left
hand. After 20 years he began
TO circulate again, gave an eXhibi-
ton. He was acclaimed a master,
far greater than before H. T. Web
ster suffered partial disablement OF
his right hand He uses only the
left now. Several artists have been
similarly afflicted, and most are in
constant dread lest tense nerves
give way and the drawing hand
be numbed.
Henry Martin and Colin Miller
DeS MoineS neWspapermen, over a
buttermilk at the Algonquin, told
me how they grew up in Oak Park
H., attended the same Sunday
school, and resolved in youth tC
work together through life. DR.
William Barton, father of Bruce
Barton, was their Sunday schoo
teacher. Bruce made his way
through school with a maple syruI
route. Ernest Hemingway livec
across the street, and Miller tool
piano lessons from his long-haireC
uncle
A grand series of pictures of New
York is being painted by EdmunC
w. Graecen, Sixty -year-old native
New Yorker. Graecean heads tn,
Grand Central School of Art. H,
finds time to steal away from hi
studio in Gramercy Park odd time
to look upon Manhattan tower
from a secret hide-out in Brooklyn
There, without telephone or doc
bell, he watches the rising or setting
sun bedizen the gilded pinnacle
across the river. He has been do
ing this for years, and has succeed
ed in catching magic light effect
from dawn to dark. He has finish
ed four such pictures and is work
ing On three more. He may pain
a dozen, all of the same skyline
The skyscrapers at the lower til
of the Island are usually photo
graphed in strong light, but tn
Witchery of dusk and the softeninl
blanket Of cool mist do wonders Il
such a scene. l have a photograph
took from the deck of an in
cOnniOD liner iuct hafOra dauy1 O