Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were not a promising group. One was a young man employed part-time as cook in a Coffee Pot. Another was an ex-broker who feared he was going mad. Another was a stranded high-school boy; another, a jobless secretary; another, a young cripple...
...Coffee Pot cook produced a study of morning sunlight filtering through a great tree in Central Park which a metropolitan art dealer snapped up. The ex-broker found peace in sculpture, modeled a striking bust of a jut-jawed, middle-aged tycoon. The secretary painted a smiling portrait of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on an old piece of bristol board. It has been purchased for the White House. The high-school boy drew automobiles. It got him a job as sports cartoonist on a Manhattan newspaper. The cripple turned out some slashing caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers which Warner Bros...
...rumps, lingered over well-shaped shoulders. But for Warsaw's twins there was but one standard of judgment: when the judges could not tell one twin from another they pinned duplicate blue ribbons on the pair. From the 3-year-old class they waved Marylyn and Carolyn Cook, of Warsaw, out of line; from the 4-year-olds Maurice and Richard Schinbeckler, of Columbia City, Ind. The last ribbons went to Mrs. Estella Dille and Mrs. Rosella Lewallen, 79, of Akron and Mentone, Ind. When the judging was over the 240 sets of twins elected as counselors John...
...pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
Angered because his son's brain had not been put back after an autopsy, John Dillinger Sr. got a permit to disinter the body from its Indianapolis grave, threatened to prosecute Cook County (Ill.) authorities. To appease him a Chicago coroner's toxicologist quickly announced that he had examined the brain and destroyed it, all in accordance with State law. His findings: no evidence of insanity...