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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homer Collyer and his brother Langley grew up just before the gas chandelier, the camisole and the Prince Albert coat vanished from the American scene. Their father was a well-known and wealthy Manhattan gynecologist, their mother an educated woman who read the classics aloud to them in Greek. They were fondly reared; they were trained to be gentlemen & scholars. Homer became an admiralty lawyer. Langley went in for engineering and developed a talent for the piano...
Langley, a long-haired and shabby figure in a greasy cap and a flapping coat, grew more secretive, more intent on being "let alone." Although he was seldom seen, he led a life of incredible activity. He read aloud to Homer, sometimes sketched buildings "all in red" which Homer had seen in visions, saved tons & tons of newspapers for Homer to read when he regained his sight. After midnight, Langley roamed the city, pulling a cardboard box on the end of a long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked...
...When Los Alamos grew bigger, it called in an outside educator as superintendent of schools. He figured that the brilliant scientists of Los Alamos must have brilliant offspring-probably an average I.Q. of 150. His school consequently emphasized college preparation for all, leaned hard on "oldfashioned" studies that discipline the mind...
Strike & Out. In 1936 Lynch was fired for Newspaper Guild activity, became a martyr in the Guild's first big strike. It ended after 15 weeks, when Hearst hired John Boettiger as publisher of the P.L, and Boettiger later rehired Lynch. But as the years went by, Slim grew tired of shooting pictures of "broads sitting on the edge of a table." He also got tired of going out on stories with bright young reporters, "all excited and running around like mad." He had forgotten more angles than they would ever learn...
Penman's Progress. Some of the things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...