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Mabel Carmon grew up in Streator, Ill., took her training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...
...have come from merchants who think we're sometimes getting a little too longhair." In Chillicothe, Mo. (pop. 8,649), Owsley Welch had the same report: "If we have a criticism it's that the programs are usually a little heavy for Chillicothe." In Streator, Ill. (pop. 16,442), Linden Mulford laid it down: "All we have in Streator is middle-class people, and if you give them all longhair stuff, you'll find only the pinky-crookers at the concerts...
Said Reporter Streator, after his first week: "I haven't been made to feel that I'm a social experiment...
...Timesman is round, greying, 43-year-old George Walter Streator, new to daily newspapering but a veteran free lance writer, teacher and labor organizer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers. Lately he had worked for WPB's labor division. The Times, in hiring Streator for general reporting, followed the example of four neighbors : the Herald Tribune, Post and Brooklyn Eagle, each of which has one Negro staffer, and PM, which...
Alice Joy's start and "discovery" by radio are archetypal. Her start was sufficiently obscure. She used to be Frances Holcombe, daughter of a rural mail-carrier in Streator, Ill. At 9 she sang hymns for Chautauqua audiences, standing on a chair between two older sisters. At 18 she went into vaudeville, played every State but Texas as one of Will J. Ward's Five Piano Girls. Then she married a Captain E. Robert Burns, Wartime aviator turned vaudeville pressagent. She settled down on Staten Island, had two children, went in for gardening...