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Winded. In Downing, Mo., John Barker celebrated his 100th birthday with a two-mile hike, did all right except once: the wind blew him down...
George Leverett Barker...
...Charles Abner Barker Jr., 52, the $81,000-a-year vice president and treasurer...
...were tempted with $4,000 in cash prizes-$800 more than Carnegie offers. The jury, imported from New York, included Juliana Force, doughty duenna of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, and two divergent painters of Manhattan life: Reginald Marsh, who paints it like a carnival barker, and Raphael Soyer, who paints it like a soft-hearted social worker. As happens with artist-dominated juries, the prizes at Chicago's Art Institute went to technically excellent paintings. Artists, who know about means, apparently care less about each others' ends...
...chair factory and as chief assistant can-washer in a dairy; peddled picture frames, baking powder and soap on the road; took a mail-order course in steam engineering; courted the belle of Springfield, Ill. ("Beautiful creature-she later married a brakeman.") He joined a street carnival as barker and sold the Perfesser's cure with a medicine show. In 1919 he became a comic-strip artist, began drawing The Bungles. By last week he was good & tired of that...