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Painter Martín is a true product of La Boca. A foundling, he was adopted as a child by a coal heaver, Manuel Quinquela. He grew to boyhood with an incorrigible habit of messing up the Quinquela home with coal and charcoal, drawing soot-colored pictures wherever he could find a clean space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread...
...with two children to support and his machinist job gone in a seasonal shutdown, Jim Williams did the hardest work of his life as a coal-heaver in a Detroit power plant, finally, in desperation, applied for a job as a policeman. Just as he had been accepted for the force, NEA decided it liked some of his drawings, asked him to go to Cleveland, offered him a contract to do a cartoon a day. At first Jim Williams' cartoons had hard sledding. Irate Cleveland dowagers wrote letters to the Cleveland Press, complaining that nobody wanted to see pictures...
...changing the service records of men dishonorably discharged by U. S. services the President imposed his ninth veto on a bill to grant an honorable discharge to Joseph G. Mclnerney who. serving in the Coast Guard in 1902. was confined in the brig, demoted from third oiler to coal heaver, and finally discharged for using insolent and mutinous language and insubordination...
...Caesar, William Shakespeare, and Jesus Christ out of the work. No expedient so simple can rid him either of his appalling ignorance of grammar, or of his incredibly jejune fancy. Yet there is in this work an ideology for above that of the common popular work; the "Outline of Heaver" would make a good Christmas present for anyone's recalcitrant goody...
...public. He used to play first viola in the Los Angeles Philharmonic beside his grandfather, a 'cellist, and his uncle who was concertmaster. Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery. When he composed a march for an Elks' Reunion in Los Angeles his family relented, let him go in for music...