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...coated breakwater near Northwestern University's campus at Evanston, Student Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...
...reward. Then Trib Reporter Chester Nichols was assigned to the hunt. After 22 sleepless hours he tracked Lotta down. When admiring cops asked him how he'd done it, Newshawk Nichols replied: "Simple. Until the Tribune hired me four years ago I was the dog-catcher at Evanston." The Sun's headline: SCOOP! MCCORMICK DOG OUTSMARTED BY TRIBUNE...
...money, is fine writing. Perhaps, if Mr. O'Neill took that sentence for the theme of a new drama based on the five "years of silence and suffering," he would create the great play your critic estimates he has not created in The Iceman Cometh. FITZROY DAVIS Evanston...
...Paris Salon was old stuff, the Left Bank Galerie de Bac was fresh as a daisy. Its show sent critics scrambling for superlatives. The object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...
Back home in Evanston she was remembered as an anemic, gloomy-looking blonde named McBrady (she changed her name because the pronunciation of "Me" stumps the French). Gertrude liked playing the piano and wearing her hair in braids...