Show Worlds World's Most Popular Models Pose for Picture 4 1 F E 3 1 e 4 n nAll All AU ready Now stand still and nad smile a smile a big smile The quintuplets are having their pictures picture taken in their new winter suits suite Annette on the left cant can't get her eyes off that newly cut Christmas fret free on the toboggan Next to her Iter Yvonne is having trouble with her helmet which ha has slipped down over one eye Next in line Une are Marie and Emilic Emillo and they are perfect subjects we wearing their heir best bet smiles smite Cecile at far tar right is all aU attention just like a little UttI soldier Fred Davis Da their special photographer watches the lineup ready to o catch the quins at t their best Man Who Risked Riske His Job to Aid Quins Quins' Will Be e Their Yule Guest By ny WILLIS THORNTON Written for tor The Telegram CALLANDER CALLAND Ont nt Dec OM 21 21 Christmas comes S a third time tinie for forth forthe forthe th the q quintuplets quintuplets' and an one of l the most honored guests at nt their festal board is b bound to be Fred Davis the man whose u unexcelled excelled camera h has s portrayed a th the children for an n. n eager world worlds M Many deny tt p people wonder t just why t Davis vl lies has h had d this exclusive privilege i Jeg lege what legu-what what justice th there re was in giving exclusively X tu iv ly this ct cream am of ot all cam camera r assignments assignments' to jUt just one m man m. m The Th al answer to anyone n one who wh knows knowe well the Dt Dionne story toty is that anything less leeS w would uld be rank Injustice e. e For D Davis vis has been a great deal more th than n photographer to th the Di Dionne Dionn nn babies Ito L Lets Let ts t.'s go ba bank back k to th that t cold coM morning morning morn morn- tn ing in May of 1934 when the Callander Cal Cal- land lander 1 mira miracle le took place A harassed c country dO doctor tor tin Un- sch schooled t d in the meaning of pubic pub lie ic interest in a a. unique event die die- tra by bV his grim b battle Ule against d death ath was in charge of ot a a. ch chaotic neighborhood rh od Brought Vital AMAt All Aid At 9 o o'clock lock that night the big ity City press ress in the form of a a. cr crew W I of f rep reporters arid and cameramen from front the he Toronto Star the nearest really metropolitan paper descended on Callander r. r OtI One of f the crew was DaviS and tJ a lucky thing it was waS waS- for or the quins for Dr Dafoe and andor for or th the millions who have since r reveled vel d in Davis Davis' pictures First in itt importance ortin e Davis had with him hm stoW stowed d in his hie car cat some worth of desperately needed medical supplies supplies' He had rush rushed d to Dr Dafoe's Toronto brother William Dafoe noted baby sp specialist special special- flit and gotten a pst LIst of what might be 30 n needed ded Then without further instructions h he 11 had d dashed out filled the bill bill bill- billand end and nd packed th the supplies supplies sup Sup- plies for the trip They were a adial avital avital vital dial h help lp in Dr lIr Dafoe's Defoe's fight B By the fourth day the newspaper crowd at Callander was overflow overflow- log ng every room In all the confusion th the desperate desperate- rivalry for pictures picture Dr Dafoe noted that one one ellow seemed always ready t to help even at at the tM expense expense of his Immediate immediate Imme frame diate chan chanCeS chancels tS t'S f for r a picture That nat was Davis Risked Picture Chance Chan e eD D Davis vIS almost missed d his big picure pic- pic tur tore ure chance because he was driving tiny tiny- ing ng Nurse Cloutier through the snow to to Bonfield to g get t some badly n needed edEd baby clothes When he got ba bade back k others had made mad t tile the 1 pictures but because Davis had been serving the children children children chil chil- dren h hd be was allowed U W d to make a duplicate When those thos first pictures began begano to o r help heIp quickly kly materialized material- material zed for the babies bable On the seventh seventh sev sey- day Davis javis making a hurried trip rip to Toronto picked up three Incubators tor shipp shipped d from Chicago He helped thaw out frozen milk f Lot of r the distracted nurs nurses l ran errands without number to North flay Bay drug or clothing stores ferried ferried fer fer- fer- fer ried ned b back k and forth to Toronto or Bonfield with nUrses and supplies cotton and nd cod liver oil In everything everything every every- thing h he ho did it Jt was the tho th babied babies first the tho pictures picture's second Dr Dafo Impressed Davis Davis' cooperativeness and car care impressed d Dr Dafoe And wh when n a contract was signed awarding exclusive exclusive ex ex- rights to the babies' babies pictures it would have been less than justice justice just jus jus- t tice ce to 10 pi pick k anyone but Davis It was Davis Davie who made a check at 6 C o'clock every morning without awakening th the Dionne Dianne household by driving past the house If All fill Was w well ll a a. nurse nUrS waved from the window It was Davis Davil who came cama slithering into Dr Dafoe's yard and drove h hint him m back in record time to the Dionne home when th the babies h lidd lidda d da a b bad d sinking spell at 3 m months month nth of ege 6 ge vi viAnd And It was Davis who drove Nuts Nurse De Ve to Bonfield for treatment when she lie W was S b badly burn burned d by the ithe upsetting of ot an oil lamp It was through Davis avi that Dr Dafoe learned to td appreciate the Interest in interest in- in terest of the ou outside world in Sn th the Dionne babi babies babie'S and le learned also to handle the flood Of ot n newspaper radio and magazine inquiries 4 end aM requests that came in When Fr Fred Ired d D Davis Davis' Vis' Vis Merry Christmas Christ Christ- mall mae rings through the Dionne nursery nursery nur nun sery this holiday se season son It will will carry catry authority additional from th the fact that Davis DatrIs as much mitch as anybody anybody any any- body h helped to mak it so o. o |