MARCH 2 = HEY, Dr. Seuss Has a Birthday Today

"Fox
Socks
Box
Knox

Knox in box.
Fox in socks.

Knox on fox in socks in box.

Socks on Knox and Knox in box.

Fox in socks on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir.  Look, sir.  Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir."

Well sir, this is just one of his books... the one from which I can clearly recall reading with my mother. It is one of many truly delightful children's verses written and drawn by the phenomenal Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss who was born on today's date, March 2 in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts to German immigrant parents. His father, Theodor Robert Geisel ran the family brewery until it was closed by prohibition after which he ran the city parks system. It just so happens that young Theodor lived just a short distance from Mulberry Street which he would make famous in his first published work "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street!" 

Ted Geisel Becomes "Dr. Seuss" 

Young Theodor attended Dartmouth College in Massachusetts, and became the Editor of Dartmouth's humor magazine.  But he fell afoul of the law in 1925 in an interesting way which lead to his evolution into Dr. Seuss.  The night before Easter Sunday of that year, the local police chief caught Ted and some of his pals cavorting around with bootleg gin.  As a result of this heinous infraction of the law, (Above: Geisel circa 1925) the Dean of the College removed Ted from his post as Editor of the humor magazine.  Nevertheless, Ted found a way to continue to make contributions. He kept on drawing cartoons for the magazine under the alias of "Seuss", or "T. Seuss" which was his mother's maiden name, and his own middle name.  He simply added the title of "Dr." some years later.  He continued to write and draw, moving to New York in 1927.  He did comic strips and also some advertising for General Electric

and Standard Oil.  But the Great Depression was on and his manuscripts met frequent rejections.  It was while walking down Madison Ave. in New York feeling dejected after his 27'th rejection that Ted Geisel literally bumped into an old friend from Dartmouth College, Mike McClintock.  It just so happened that Mr. McClintock had that very morning begun a job as the Editor of the Children's Section of Vanguard Books.  The two men talked and within a few hours Geisel signed a contract from which  "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street!" was published in 1937 and Dr. Seuss was on his way!

A Treasure Trove of Children's Tales

And since then Dr. Seuss has left us a literal treasure trove of children's tales with catching rhymes and remarkably friendly illustrations of a menagerie of characters.  For example there is Horton the elephant, who says throughout "Horton Hatches the Egg",  "I meant what I said/ And I said what I meant/ An elephant's faithful/ One hundred percent!" of his intention to

hatch an egg for a bird who has flown off.  Horton is a typical Dr. Seuss character who is faithful to his friends and stands by what he knows to be right.  In 1954's "Horton Hears a Who" Horton is convinced that he has heard the inhabitants of a dust speck complete with their own little world which he must protect from destruction.  "Don't give up/ I believe in you all/ A person's a person/ No matter how small" is what Horton says in saving his friends from being boiled in "Beezlenut Oil". And these are all little lessons that registered with this child, because I've remembered those rhymes and plot details with very little help from "Wikipedia".  I may be a kid at heart, but I know a good plot and a great rhyme when I hear it, and happily so have millions of children over the years.

The Rhythms of the Ships Engines

Inspired by the rhythm of the ships engines in an ocean liner which he and his first wife took to Europe in 1936, the meter of Geisel's simple tales of honesty and good faith, as well as his simple rhymes have been helping children to master their reading skills for years now and continue to do so to this day, evolving with the story-tellers medium.  He published my own favorite, "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" in 1957.  This was transformed in 1966 into the wonderful TV cartoon

movie of the same name with narration by the actor Boris Karloff, who had been known as "the King of Horror" in his film career.  This then became the successful 2000 movie, "The Grinch" with the popular comic actor Jim Carrey. One of his most popular works came about because of a 1954 report published in "Life" magazine which said that much of children's illiteracy occurred because so many children's books were boring. The publisher "Houghton Mifflin" gave Geisel a list of words that were important for first graders to know. Nine months later, Geisel came out with "The Cat in the Hat" which used Geisel's imaginative characters and drawings, but used a simplified vocabulary which included 236 of the words on that list which young readers could follow and understand.

A Less Than Storybook Life...

Regrettably, Ted Geisel's life was a less happy matter than his stories.  His first wife, Helen suffered from a long bout with cancer, and committed suicide in 1967 owing to her anguish over an affair that Ted had with Audrey Dimond, whom he married the following year.  He wound up having no children of his own with either

woman, but he quipped when asked about this; "You have 'em, and I'll entertain 'em!" He passed away from the effects of Oral Cancer on September 24, 1991, at his home in La Jolla in California at the age of 87.  Four years after his death, University of California, San Diego's University Library Building was in December of 1995 renamed Geisel Library in honor of Geisel and Audrey for their contributions to the library and their devotion to improving literacy.  And "Dr. Seuss" continues to be read and loved by millions of children (and "adults" like this one) all over the world.


Sources:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/Fox-In-Socks.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

http://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-dr-seuss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hatches_the_Egg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hears_a_Who!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas!

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MARCH 1 = The Lindbergh Baby is Kidnapped

"Betty opened the room, closed the French window, and plugged in the electric heater. Walking towards the baby's crib, she realized that she could not hear the baby breathing. "I thought that something had happened to him," Betty would later retell, "that perhaps the clothes were over his head. In the half light I saw he wasn't there and felt all over the bed for him." Betty raced through the passageway into the master bedroom, just as Anne was exiting the bathroom. "Do you have the baby, Mrs. Lindbergh?" she asked. Bewildered, Anne said, "No." "Perhaps Colonel Lindbergh has him then," she said. "Where is Colonel Lindbergh?" Anne instinctively went into the baby's room while Betty ran downstairs, through the living room and up to the door of the library where Lindbergh was sitting at his desk. "Colonel Lindbergh," Betty said, trying to catch her breath,"have you got the baby? Please don't fool me." "The baby?" he asked. "Isn't he in his crib?" Before she could answer, he had jumped from his chair and run upstairs to the baby's room, Betty at his heels. Just from the look of the bed clothes, Lindbergh "felt sure that something was wrong." He went to the master bedroom, brushing past Anne, who asked if he had baby. "He did not answer me," she later recounted. "Someone had already told him." Charles went to his closet and loaded the rifle he kept there. He headed back toward the nursery, followed by Anne and Betty Gow. "Anne," he said, now looking right into his wife's eyes, "they have stolen our baby." "

This was the scene at about 10:00 p.m. on the evening of this date, March 1, in 1932 at the Hopewell, New Jersey home of Colonel Charles A.Lindbergh, and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh (pictured left, with Col. Lindbergh), as described by author A. Scott Berg in his 1998 book, "Lindbergh." This discovery by Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh along with their nurse, Betty Gow that their eight month-old son, Charles Jr. had been kidnapped was the beginning of a long and terrible ordeal, most of it in the public eye.

Colonels Lindbergh, Schwarzkopf, and Bruno Richard Hauptmann

Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh had been a national hero since he made the first ever solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May of 1927 in his plane, "the Spirit of St. Louis". Young, handsome, and enormously photogenic, Lindbergh captured the imagination of the public around the world. With near-saturation coverage of his life in newspapers, newsreels, and the emerging medium of radio, he became in author Berg's description, the first modern media celebrity. A ransom note found in the room that night, written in barely literate English demanded a ransom of $50,000.00. A search of the area lead by New Jersey State Police Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf (father of the Persian Gulf War General) turned up footprints, and the damaged ladder used by the kidnappers to reach the baby's second floor window. With media coverage following every turn of events, offers of help poured in from all over the country, including one from the jailed Al Capone. But not until April 2 did the assailants provide instructions on payment of the ransom. The payment was made, but the directions to find the baby in a boat off the Massachusetts coast turned up nothing. In early May, the baby's largely decomposed body was found not far from the Lindbergh home. He had been killed the night of the kidnapping by a blow to the head. It looked for some time as if the case would go unsolved. But in September of 1934, the appearance of a marked bill from the ransom payment led to the arrest of a German immigrant, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (pictured below).

"The Trial of the Century" Commences

The trial took place in January of 1935, with the world plugged in to the court- house in Flemington, New Jersey to listen in on what was dubbed "the Trial of the Century." The discovery of most of the remaining bills in Hauptmann's garage, as well as the wood apparently used to construct the ladder were the primary evidence against him. But many have concluded that his German origin coupled with his thick German accent, as well as enormous public sympathy for the Lindberghs left him convicted in the public eye before the trial even began. He was found guilty, and given the death penalty. He maintained his innocence until his execution in the electric chair

 in April of 1935. The trial and Haupt- mann's conviction have remained a matter of contro- versy down to the present day. Hauptmann's widow Anna tried for the rest of her life to clear her late husband's name. Author Berg has said that he approached the subject believing that Mrs. Hauptmann was possibly right about her late husband's innocence, and hoping to prove it. But further examination of the evidence led him to the conclusion that whatever the irregularities of the trial, Hauptmann was indeed guilty. He had kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, and had accepted the ransom money. But the death of the child had been an accident that occurred when Hauptmann dropped the baby as he climbed down his home-made ladder from the baby's room the night of the crime, and the unstable ladder broke.

Sources:

"Lindbergh" by A. Scott Berg, Putnam & Sons, New York, 1998.


Images:

Col. Lindbergh =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping

Hauptmann =
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/kidnap/bh.asp
http://thesoundsofhistory.com/lindbergh.html

"WANTED" Poster=
http://www.celebritymorgue.com/lindbergh-baby/

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FEBRUARY 29 = "Leap Day" & Hattie Wins Oscar

"It is... slightly inac- curate to calculate an additional 6 hours each year. A better approx- imation, derived from the Alfonsine tables, is that the Earth makes a complete revolution around the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds. To compensate for the difference, an end-of-century year is not a leap year unless it is also exactly divisible by 400. This means that the years 1600 and 2000 were leap years, as will be 2400 and 2800, but the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not, nor will 2100, 2200 and 2300."

- "Wikipedia" on "Leap Day"

OK.... normally I just try to absorb information into (what passes for) my brain, and then write it out in my own words. But this little bit was just too eh... scientific sounding for me to put into my own words so I just quote "Wikipedia" (an excellent on-line resource, by the way, which I use quite frequently) directly. What they are basically saying there is that it takes the earth 365 days plus six hours (and change) to make a full revolution around the sun. So in order to make up for the extra time, we add this one day - February 29 - once every four years so we have a FULL revolution. The "leap day" was brought into the calender in the Julian reform. This was the revision of the calender by our old friend Julius Caesar (the first Emperor of Rome) in 46 BC. It took effect the following year, 45 BC . "Terminalia" (February 23) was doubled, and this formed the "bis sextum" — literally 'double sixth'. February 29 eventually got picked as the "leap day" when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering by time of the the later Middle Ages. The picture is of the "Roman Missal" ( a book showing texts for the Catholic Mass) showing how the Leap Day shifts commemorations in 1962.

SO!! With all of that understood (I HOPE!!) let us get along to something that happened on this Leap Day in 1940 to wind up "Black History Month":

On today's date in 1940, the African American Actress Hattie McDaniel (right) became the first black performer ever to be awarded an Academy Award, for her portrayal of the character of "Mammy" in the 1939 MGM movie "Gone With the Wind". While this was most certainly a signal honor for Miss McDaniel, many African Americans have over the years expressed discomfort and in many cases outright hostility towards the role for what many see as it's stereotypical portrayal of a black character.

Hattie Begins in Radio, and Moves to Pictures

Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10, 1895, the youngest of thirteen children of former slaves, Henry McDaniel, a civil War veteran, and Susan Holbert, a singer of religious music. Clearly, Hattie inherited her mother's flair for music -- she soon began a career which took her onto the comparatively new medium of radio, becoming the first black woman to sing on radio in America. Soon she made it to Hollywood and began appearing in films such as "I'm No Angel" (1932, opposite Mae West), and "Judge Priest" (1934) in which she sang along and became friends with the famed humorist Will Rogers. More often than not playing the role of a maid, she continued to have roles in movies such as "The Shopworn Angel" (1938) in which she starred with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, with whom she became good friends.

"Gone With the Wind" - Her Most Famous Role

But it was with her portrayal of  "Mammy"  the strong and irreverent maid to the O'Hara family in the 1939 epic ,"Gone With the Wind" that McDaniel had her most famous role, and the one which won her an Oscar. Black roles were hard to come by in Hollywood in these days of segregated America, let alone an important central role such as the character of Mammy in an important movie, surely THE most important movie of it's era. One could hardly fault a character actress such as McDaniel for snapping it up when it came her way (in MY humble opinion). The role is of a very strong woman who never hesitates for a moment to speak her mind to any other character in the film. She also frequently serves as the conscience to the lead character of "Scarlett O'Hara" played by Vivien Leigh, with whom she is pictured above. Nevertheless, the role is one of several in this film which cast an almost nostalgic look upon the days of slavery in America. This idea that the old south was populated by slaves who had an almost fond and affectionate attitude towards their largely benevolent masters, was of course a myth to say the least. And many African Americans then and since have come to look upon the role played by McDaniel and other roles in the film as perpetuating a damaging stereotype of members of their race. McDaniel herself dismissed these charges as class-based biases against domestics, a claim with which many of the white newspaper columnists seemed to sympathize. And she reportedly said,"Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one."

Hattie Wins the Oscar for "GWTW"!!

At the film's premiere in Atlanta, McDaniel was not permitted into the audience in the strictly segregated south. Her friend Clark Gable had angrily threatened to boycott the Atlanta premiere in protest, but McDaniel talked him out of this. At the Hollywood premiere, she was allowed to attend, and the film went on to huge success. McDaniel was awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1939 at the Twelfth Academy Awards which were held on this date in 1940 at the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Even here, there was strict segregation with McDaniel being relegated to a table with her escort by itself, away from her "Gone With the Wind" co-stars. Her acceptance speech which is said to have been written for her was brief but eloquent:

"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you."

She then left the podium before dissolving into tears.


Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel

Directed by Victor Fleming, MGM, 1939










Images:

Leap Day =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MissaleLeapYear.jpg

Hattie McDaniel =
http://www.cogreatwomen.org/mcdaniel.htm

Hattie with Vivien Leigh =
http://likeawhisper.wordpress.com/tag/hattie-mcdaniel/

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The Black Portia

Name:
Charlotte E. Ray

Born:
January 13, 1850/New York City, New York

Died: 
January 04, 1911/Woodside, New York

Occupation:
Lawyer, educator, African-American civil and women’s rights activist

What Makes Her Bitchin’:
In 1872, Charlotte E. Ray graduated from the Howard University School of Law, subsequently becoming the first African-American female lawyer. The first woman admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, Charlotte struggled against persistent discrimination due to her gender and race. Unable to draw a steady stream of clients, she practiced law for only a couple of years. Charlotte eventually relocated to New York City where she became a teacher.

Betcha’ Didn’t Know:
Charlotte was the first woman permitted to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

For more about this litigating lady, check-out :

Charlotte E. Ray (biography.com)

Ray, Charlotte E. (1850-1911) (BlackPast.org)

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