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...wore long white kid gloves, bangs, and white dresses with pink and blue sashes. The opera was a polite and serious affair. In subsequent years, in going to the opera we have always felt it to be something of a rite, and it was with a feeling akin to guilt, even in later years, that either my sister or myself entered the refreshment room for a discreet cup of coffee...
Young Jacob Lawrence was shy, but he felt at home; he had long ago decided to become a painter. His mother had encouraged him when he was still a kid: "It kept me off the streets." Within a few years, his flaming, semi-abstract pictures of Negro life hung in half a dozen top U.S. museums, and won him three Rosenwald fellowships. Only 30 now, Jacob Lawrence is the nation's No. 1 Negro artist...
...than work, so he sometimes falls behind schedule, despite prodding from his wife. Then his old cartoons reappear, "redrawn by request." "I couldn't work without talking to people," says Williams defensively. "I always have people here-cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making all that money out of them...
...become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
Said Walter Weir, of Manhattan's Walter Weir, Inc.: "You have only to read some of the incredible drivel being foisted upon the American public ... to realize that today's copywriter-bred on copy research-has become a virtual Katzenjammer Kid ... giving readers and listeners mental and spiritual hotfoots hour after hour, every day in the year." Radio copywriters, said Weir, are among the worst offenders: "Through slavish obeisance to Hooperatings [see RADIO] . . . [radio] has become largely hackneyed and stereotyped...