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...took pleasure in taking pains, Belcher once spent two hours roasting a chicken to precisely the right shade of brown for painting. Though other Punch favorites, such as Rowland Emett and Fougasse, relied more on fantasy or stylization for their effect, Belcher never felt the least temptation to desert, or improve on, the humor of the world around him. Last week, at 72, he died...
...Rowland, an ex-bartender and ex-umpire, the PCLers renewed their lobbying for promotion to major status...
...Pants Rowland, the best way to get out from under the hated draft would be to make the P.C.L. a third big league. The obvious argument: such cities as Sacramento, San Diego and Portland do not have the finances, the population or the parks to make the grade. (West Coasters point out that the St. Louis Browns have played to crowds as small as 478.) Last week Babe Ruth dropped into Los Angeles, threw more cold water on the western dream: "There aren't even enough top baseball players for two major leagues...
YOUR FINE ARTICLE [TIME, MAY 19] MADE ONE STATEMENT WHICH HAS GRIEVED MY BROTHER JAMES AND MYSELF AS WELL AS OUR FAMILIES. . . . MY BROTHER ROWLAND DIED AS THE RESULT OF HAVING BEEN GASSED IN THE 1914 WAR, AND CERTAINLY ANY IMPLICATION THAT HE DIED FROM DRINK IS WRONGFUL TO THE MEMORY OF THIS FINE MAN. THE PHRASE, "WHO DRANK," MIGHT LEAD YOUR READERS TO BELIEVE THAT HE DRANK TO EXCESS. . . . ROWLAND WAS NOT A TEETOTALER BUT DRANK IN MODERATION AS DO MILLIONS OF OTHERS...
FURTHERMORE, ONE MIGHT INFER FROM THE ARTICLE THAT MY FATHER HAD DISINHERITED MY BROTHER ROWLAND. ANY SUCH IMPLICATION IS ALSO WITHOUT BASIS OF FACT. ACTUALLY . . . MY FATHER . . . GAVE MY BROTHER ROWLAND A FINE BIG FLOUR MILL WHICH BUILT ITSELF INTO A POWERFUL BUSINESS. KNOWING YOUR DESIRE FOR ACCURACY, WHICH I CAN WELL JUDGE FROM THE EXTENTS TO WHICH RESEARCH WAS DONE BY YOUR REPORTERS BOTH IN ENGLAND AND HERE, I KNOW THAT YOU WILL CORRECT THESE UNFORTUNATE . . STATEMENTS ABOUT MY LATE BROTHER. MY FAMILY AND I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL, INDEED...