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Such a mishap would appear impossible given that the doors and windows had been shut and that the station was on the 11th floor.
In a newsletter published in early 1932, she notes the “tide of water” that recently washed over the station. In one essay, she urges listeners to send only positive letters since “not enough people complain to carry any weight against the number of people who praise.”Īnother clipping reveals that even a flood fails to ruin her good humor. Meanwhile, Welty edited the newsletter of WJDX, a local radio station owned by her father. “Four abreast, fender to fender, bumper to bumper, the automobiles will parade along the nation’s highways, just like one big family.” In “Vacations Lure Jacksonians,” published in 1930, she lays out a unique history: The first vacation, she states, “was undoubtedly when Adam and Eve thought it would be nice to get away from the grind awhile.” In caveman times, vacations were short and simple because only men could take them and “no man is going to drag a woman 40 miles.”īringing her story to the present, Welty suggests a law requiring all vacations begin at the same time. She had tried unsuccessfully to get a job at The New Yorker, even though she seemed more than capable of keeping up with the big city wits. Life in Jackson, Miss.After graduating from college, Welty wrote features for the Jackson Daily News, giving the most ordinary matters a friendly pinch. Mae West is drawn in a swirl of hair, cleavage and false eyelashes. William Faulkner, her fellow Mississipian, looks wild-haired and black-eyed, as if he had just been electrocuted. A sketch of Hitler leaves his face blank except for the famous toothbrush mustache.
Her illustrations are equally distinctive. Required to read Virgil’s “The Aeneid” in high school, she helped found the “The Girgil Club,” formed “by the senior girls who ate lunch at the 6th period.”
She was a compulsive reader and learner and was compulsively funny about it. Nicholas, a children’s magazine that has also featured early work by Rachel Carson, Ring Lardner and other famous writers. She says the book is meant to display the roots of what readers came to know well later on: “her comic energy, her creative mind and her sense of the ironic and absurd.”Ī writer’s juvenilia can look as embarrassing as a yearbook picture, but youthful spark and irreverence sustain “Early Escapades.” Even the cover photo makes it on sheer nerve: A young Welty camps it up for the camera, a tattered hairpiece pulled around her head, a fat mustache affixed to her mouth.īorn in Jackson, Miss., in 1909, Welty profited early on from her writing gifts she was 12 when she received $25 for winning the “Jackie Mackie Jingles Contest,” sponsored by the Mackie Pine Oil Company of Covington, La. New look at the early WeltyFor “Early Escapades,” Black gathered material that had never been assembled in book form, including family documents, college and high school writings and newspaper clippings.
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