The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-08-24

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some examples Of typical New Workers.
By that / mean that neither was born
here, neither has been here very long
and both hope to stay. 7 met Carol at q
luncheon where, after dessert, ! saw her
around for some one. "Are you
a newspaper woman?" / asked. Eyes"
she replied. "How did you know"
not help but smile. "You look like
one" l answered. "You look like a news
paper mani" she retorted, and from hat
minute we were friends.
Carol is a feature writer for the New
York World Telegram. She came here
from Princeton, West Virginia, some
months ago, with her eyes on the stars.
Not the ones In the sky but those which
mark the different editions of big city
dailies. On the basis of good experience
on papers back home, Carol expected to
land a job here. She did. Which is for
tunate because so many people come
with exactly the same idea based upon
the same kind Of experience, and never
make the grade. Perhaps it was the in
spiration of her husband which helped,
too. Rand is a cartoonist and had also
made good in the "provinces"-as New
Workers. who have been here at least q
year like to call the backbone sections.
He got a Job with the Associated Press,
worked for awhile in their swank Radio
City offices and now gets to stay home
and draw his comic strip, which the big
association syndicates.
The Taylors live in Greenwich VII
lage and are looking forward to the time
when they will live somewhere else.
Which is another way Of saying they are
typical New Yorkers-or newcomers. We
lived there once just after coming to
this city, and might have stayed, only
one night a huge hunk of plaster fell
from the ceiling and hit me square in
the chest, something l have resented
ever since, because it hit me while
was lying down. Next day we moved, OF
at least soon thereafter. But back to the
Taylors. They eat in part Of the time,
when Carol can find opportunity to COOK,
and the rest of the meals are eaten at
this and that restaurant hunted up IN
extensive searches for exotic and some
what digestible foods.
OF course soon after they arrived, this
genial couple started out to see the
sights for which New York is famous.
They ascended the towering Empire
State building and looked shudderingly
out over the great city they had sworn
to conquer. Then they clambered aboard
a 9Th Avenue bus and went up to the
Metropolitan Museum which the rush
ed through with impatient appreciation.
They were surprised-even as you and
Ito find that the famous theatres are
not on Broadway at all, but on side
streets branching off the famous
t~horoughfare. They saw the ~big-name
shows that every visitor is supposed to
see, and settled back co~ntentedly until
the rawness of the stage language shock
ed them.
Other sights and landmarks were soon
checked off of their list of "musts", the
only two looking like those in the pic
lures being Radio City and Wall Street.
A ferry ride to Staten Island revealed
tina the Statue of Liberty by evening Is
molc of a dim illusion than a brilliant
reality. An early morning visit to the
Music Hall in Rockefeller Center on
Easter was as inspiring as a dawn meet
ing in a dewy little country church. The
heises of the streets seemed harsh to
hem at first, then became a tired lul-
aby which rocked them to sleep at night.
sew York was becoming a habit at last.
Now the Taylors live quietly at home.
IN Sunday mornings they read the
funny papers, go to church. They have
net a lot of people but FIND that making
lose friends is not so easy, especially
hen the most interesting people often
i've in some distant suburb and don't
get in very often to visit. They have
iound that people without children uru-
ally live in apartments in or near Man
aattan, while those with offspring to
mind almost invariably move out into
some house and garden much like those
back home. Those who stay in the part
ments have dogs or cats and vie with
each other in trying to obtain proper
food and care for their pets. Sometimes
there is such warm discussion among
heir friends about this, that it is hard
20 decide which is more important. the
welfare of humans or animals.
Some day, the Taylors hope to be
famous enough and have money enough
20 retire from New York and go back to
the land from which they came. But the
chances are that they will not. They
nave both made a good start on the road
to fame and fortune, but old New York
ers tell them they will never leave this
modern Babylon except to visit. Those
who differ in opinions make good copy
for the Taylors to use in newspapers. Be
2ause theirs is a double task. Not only
10 live as normally as it can be lived
n this biggest of cities. but also to re
ord it faithfully for millions of others
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