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...Granny Queen's Christmas, were painstaking and thorough. Very different were Sister Margaret's drawings of an imagined character called the Pinkle-Ponkle, who hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret. "Wherever did you learn such slang?" King George once asked his younger daughter. "Oh," said Margaret, "at my mother's knee-or some such low joint...
Critics had called his first show the Museum of Modern Art's "worst blunder," a "combination of preciosity and of the hunting down of butterflies with the aid of caterpillar tractors." His simple compositions seemed frozen into place by the fussy discipline of an old man. But to a public weary of modern art's chaotic ugliness, Hirshfield's childlike craft and gay colors were refreshing. Picasso said, just like that: "He's a great artist...
...Then a Caterpillar office man, who married a Chenoa girl and lives in Peoria, who came here to attend a funeral, told me he saw the item, as he shook hands. Then there was the principal of the high school at Bellflower; a paper salesman from Bloomington; and several relatives and friends who dropped me notes. These are but a few of the comments I heard...
Across the plains, ranchers and cowhands tied bandannas under their Stetsons to protect their ears, pulled on sheepskins and mittens, and began a desperate rescue operation. Horses were helpless in the drifts. Trucks were useless except on cleared roads. But a caterpillar tractor with a bulldozer blade was worth its weight in gold...
Occasionally, like most debunkers, Author Evans loses his sense of humor (as in his stern "exposure" of the egotism of mother birds). But in the main The Natural History of Nonsense is fit to turn the hair of a woolly caterpillar white overnight...