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...spring of 1930 a blond, square-shouldered young man sat in his Model-T Ford and looked at Scranton, Pa. He saw great black pyramids of coal, busy, puffing locomotives, dismal rows of workers' houses. From Scranton he turned south to Bethlehem where there were steel mills and more locomotives...
...blue like Charleston Harbor. The Emden sailors seemed to soar from the decks like birds. All the time Peter Blume was trying to paint what he had seen. He finally finished his picture with red and blue coal, flying sailors, the Emden conning tower, the houses at Scranton, the harbor at Charleston all painfully lumped together on one canvas...
Last week Peter Blume's South of Scranton (see cut) won first prize ($1,500) in the Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings at Pittsburgh, against 356 other canvases by 296 other artists from 13 countries. A surrealist picture, South of Scranton was characterized by flat, bright colors, razor-sharp outlines. Rare indeed was the critic who dared to stand up and cheer for it. The New York Sun's Henry McBride, after a long description of his train trip to Pittsburgh during which a "sudden lurch" threw "an exceedingly handsome young woman'' into his arms, finally...
Nobody knows who first dubbed the Wilkes-Barre, Pa. murder the "American Tragedy." Philadelphia Record editors said it was their reporter Andrew MacLain ("Mac") Parker. City Editor Charles Israel of the Philadelphia Bulletin said it was himself. The city editor of the Scranton Times credited a United Press man. Possibly all three, and many another newshawk, swooped at once on the catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot...
...expand U. S. airmail mileage some 15,000 miles, at an annual cost of $1,332,938. He added twelve new round-trips daily to established domestic airmail routes. He extended air mail service to five new cities by authorizing stops on existing runs at Providence, New Haven, Elmira, Scranton, Youngstown. He introduced airmail to the Hawaiian Islands by authorizing Inter-Island Airways, Ltd. to carry mail between Honolulu, Lihue, Hilo and Wailuku...