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Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...
Already the Press was speculating on whom the President would pick to succeed Mr. Howe as his No. 1 secretary when one morning the gaunt little patient awoke, looked about him, asked for a cigaret. Hastily five doctors were called into consultation, gravely decided that the crisis was past. Although the "ultimate prognosis was not good," Mr. Howe was on the mend. Hastily the President's bags were packed and the same evening he entrained for Florida feeling happier about his faithful Louis Howe than he had in days...
...sound very like good for the kiddies stuff, but it's photographed with breath-taking beauty and without being too "Buy American" it's safe to say that there aren't many more beautiful mountains in the world than the towering Sierras of California with their massive redwoods and gaunt peaks of stupendous height. The eye-appeal of this picture is such as has rarely graced the screen and the thrilling drama in the lives of the mountain animals is portrayed with sincere dramatic power...
...proctors have exhumed their traditional cerecloth, and swathed in mortuary folds, are softly pacing the unburied ranks in the Gymnasium. The mysterious tutelary spirit (gaunt spectre of the undergraduate) has emerged from his hibernation and once more tolls the bell and once more makes unintelligible unanimity all the sparrows of the city have abandoned the open spaces and are now chirping and wrangling in their peculiar manner over the gloomy aisles. It is significant that none of the sparrows has ever been found in the Gymnasium except during the periods of inquisition. They are doubtless imported for the occasion...
...Columbia undergraduate is strongly perturbed. A cup of coffee in one hand and a library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...