Word: middletowners
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...collector from Chicago was glad that he visited the Middletown, N.Y. asylum that day in 1916. It was a privilege to talk with Artist Ralph Albert Blakelock, whose moonlit lakes and forests were bringing up to $20,000 apiece. And the painter seemed perfectly all right, too-at least, until the moment when he drew what looked like a roll of bills from his pocket and gave three to his visitor. "Take this back to Chicago," Blakelock soberly advised him. "Don't spend it, but live off the interest." The bills turned out to be three little green landscapes...
...Buckingham Palace, just as she might have in some U.S. Middletown, the heiress to the throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber...
Cornell is coached by Royner Green, who replaced Speed Wilson this season. The new mentor is a product of Middletown, Ohio, where his high school quintet captured 236 out of 280 games, including a skein of 43 consecutive victories...
...Frank Herrington was wide awake last week. Observers agreed that his contribution to Sino-American relations in the past three years has been priceless. Back in the U.S., his wife was "fairly sure" that he would not take up his old practice again in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,000); he had already written to ask her how she would like to settle down in Shanghai...
BLACK METROPOLIS-St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton-Harcourt, Brace $5). In the same sort of cool, clinical case history in which Robert and Helen Lynd dissected the U.S. small town in Middletown, Anthropologist Drake and Sociologist Cayton have card-indexed the manners, mores and living conditions of the U.S. Negro in a northern city. Because of the tragic, potentially explosive material with which it deals, Black Metropolis is more engrossing, and may be more important, than the Lynds' book. Educators, politicians, ordinary thoughtful citizens- and perhaps even a few Southern Senators -may find in this well-organized, well...