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Since 1920 Cartoonist William Gropper has been busy as a beaver, trying to gnaw down the capitalist system. One day that year Manhattan's Tribune rashly sent Gropper to caricature an I. W. W. rally. Instead, he became a convert. This week Manhattanites from Red to pink and some who just like pictures celebrated "20 Years of Bill Gropper" with a show of his recent paintings at the A. C. A. Gallery, a Gropper monograph (36 reproductions, text by self-taught fellow Artist Joe Jones), a rousing rally in Mecca Temple...
...General Beaver got his title from Georgia's former Governor Eugene Talmadge, for whom he served as chief of staff. Part Cherokee, he is a fearsome-looking, 220-pound six-footer with jet black hair and deep-set, piercing eyes. His history is as tough as his looks. Born the son of a bartender, he grew up in a tough section of Augusta, Ga., once beat up his school principal. At college (University of Georgia), he was a star tackle and baseball player, also made Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching at three other prep schools, he became Riverside...
Today General Beaver's school has 27 buildings (he picked up the Hollywood hotel cheap in 1931), is reported to make $100,000 a year. Scorning tax exemption and offers of endowment gifts, General Beaver runs a strictly profit-making institution. His teachers spend their vacations recruiting pupils, get part of their pay in commissions. His pupils pay $1,044 a year, which includes eight uniforms, tuition, board and all expenses. They are required to furnish bedding, an indelible ink outfit (for marking clothes) and a Bible. The school fee includes spending money: $1 a week for cadets averaging...
Life is no picnic in any military school, but General Beaver's school is particularly two-fisted. At each new boy, General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets...
...model for his students, General Beaver never has tasted liquor, coffee, tea or soft drinks, at 56 still rises at 5 each morning. His proudest boast is that one April day in 1936, when a tornado struck Gainesville, 400 of his cadets took charge of the town and, without food and in a driving rain, held on for eight hours, relieving distress, saving lives...