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Back East, he sold his first sketch, Indian Scouts on Geronimo's Trail, to Harper's Weekly for $10. In the next 23 years he produced more than 2,000 pictures, some 15 sculptures (in bronze), illustrated 73 books (13 of them his own travels...
...rosily healthy, haven't had even a cold in three years. They still study under private governesses (nuns) in their 19-room, nine-bath Callander, Ont. mansion, have about average intelligence. Their accomplishments: they peck out a fair tune on their three pianos, chirp a pleasing soprano, and sketch a promising freehand...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
...draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
...McCutcheon took a round-the-trip, bumped into the Spanish War, was with Dewey at Manila Bay, moved on to sketch the Boer War for the folks jack home. Between junkets in 1903, he switched to the Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...