Thursday, December 13, 2012

      
[1897 - Andrew Russell 'Drew' Pearson, radio and newspaper columnist, journalist, muckraker, born in Evanston, Illinois]

[1903 - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, born in Madrid]

      
[1910 - Van Heflin (Emmett Evan Heflin, Jr.), Academy Award-winning actor, born in Walters, Oklahoma]

      
[1913 - Archie Moore (Archibald Lee Wright), Boxing Hall of Famer, Light-heavyweight Champion, born in Benoit, Mississippi]

   
[1915 - Curt (Curd) Jurgens, actor, born in Solln, Bavaria, Germany]

   
[1918 - Bill Vukovich (William Vucerivoch), race car driver, twice Indy champion, born in Fresno, California]

   
[1930 - Robert Prosky (Robert Joseph Porzuczek), actor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

[1961 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses),
artist, dies at age 101]

When I Grow Up

What will little William be,
When reaches he maturity?
Kind Reader, mayhap be absurd,
Grandpa Moses of the written word?

To give his career a needed boost,
Trains he to Master the mot juste.
Should you care about poorwilliam,
Prithee: The Force is with him.

   

Note: Grandma Moses was about seventy when she began her career as a self-taught painter. She did not sell her first painting until almost age eighty. Soon this special artist attained recognition and fame for her primitive style of homespun works. She was so long in coming to her art because she grew up in an era in which the traditional role of women (particularly farm wives) was to work hard at keeping up a home and raising children. She did that rather well by most accounts, starting out with her husband as tenant farmers, and bearing ten children.

Grandma Moses - Thunderstorm

William's Whimsical Words:

William has no valid excuse for waiting as long as he has to grasp for his brass ring.

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