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...knew Fredric Bickel at the University of Wisconsin. I was in some of the same college shows with him. In particular do I recall his appearance with Charles Carpenter in a Union Vodvil sketch in 1920 called, "Carpenter & Bickel, the Gloom Picklers" and in 1919 in an act with "Chuck" Carpenter in which they termed themselves, "Assassins of Sorrow." From the titles you can guess that they were comedians. Through all of these performances the thing that I remember distinctly is the extreme nervousness and stage fright of Fredric Bickel. Back stage before, during, and after each performance Fredric drank...
...gratifying to an American that Goethe mentions such books as Washington Irving's, "Sketch-Book" and Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography ," for example, though his death in 1832 naturally deprived him of any possible acquaintance with the more important books of the nineteenth centuary American literature. One can imagine with amusement Goethe's reception of Walt Whitman. He might very well have been disturbed in his Olympian calm by reading "Leaves of Grass...
There are 77 Johnsons (and Johnstons), 62 Joneses. Newton Diehl Baker contributes the sketch of his fellow-townsman Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist (street railways), who was converted to the single tax by Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New York Times in 1851, is distinguished among Joneses and newspaper publishers by reason of having refused an offer of $5,000,000 to abandon his crusade against Tammany Boss William Marcy Tweed...
...Year's Day the official Soviet newsorgan, Izvestia, confidently predicted that J. Stalin's new decrees will break the peasant's strike, speed the wheels of industry. Front-paging a nearly lifesize sketch of the Dictator whose left arm extended clear across the bottom of the page, Izvestia captioned and clarioned: AHEAD, COMRADES, TO NEW VICTORIES...
...girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together between the letters of LIFE, the whole against an elysian landscape...