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...pictures in the window. There they were spotted by a Manhattan collector named Louis Caldor. He bought them all and began trying to interest New York art dealers in Grandma's work. Finally he tried the newly opened Galerie St. Etienne, run by a solemn Viennese expatriate named Otto Kallir, who fell hard for the pictures. Dealer Kallir put Grandma under contract, and her first big show, in 1940, lit the match to a bonfire of public enthusiasm which has been crackling brightly ever since...
...salesman and assistant branch manager for. the Manufacturers Life Insurance Co., 4) a salesman-distributor-stockholder in a gift-package company, 5) a successful author (Otto Graham, T Quarterback), and 6) one of the busiest and most civic-minded speechmakers in the Cleveland area...
...Otto Graham is as busy as ever, and even more successful. He is 1) the star quarterback of the Cleveland Browns...
Stitches Don't Hurt. Graham, says Coach Brown (who converted Otto from a Northwestern single-wing halfback), "is the first to admit how much he must depend on the work of other players." The other players, in turn, depend on Graham. During a tight game with the San Francisco Forty-Niners earlier in the season, Graham suffered a severe face gash (only his second injury in eight years of pro ball). The wound required 15 stitches, but Graham went back into the game, completed nine of ten passes, and the Browns finally won, 23-21. Next night, Graham...
Last January, while Graham and his wife were in Los Angeles for the pro bowl game, their youngest child was taken ill and died before the Grahams could get home. "It set me thinking," Otto says. "It was the first adversity that ever hit me. Until then, the worst that had ever happened to me was to have a pass intercepted. It gave me a more serious outlook. Now, I just want to keep busy...