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Show Tho Pulitacr Prtaa Winner Ona Waar IncUaa Coabiraea, Another Hid Out im a Quia Country Town NEW YORK Juat a few lines to-dsy to-dsy about some of thee bright young me, whoa names simrkle lor tbs moment In lha light of lb rujltser award: On a certain falrly-freetlng dsy Isat winter I Was Invited lo a siudla In Ihs up per aU Ilea. Itwsi - T F a more tbsn psas- (Qi I Ingly plclureaqu Lj-' aiudlo. a d o r pad ""r with Indian i i i a fa blanket and In . MS dian haekeia aac r".ci-vC' rharma and auiu d And ther wsi My Sf L a young sisn whi (--k 1 1"J l could beat the In - JUllffi dlaa druma s n t. -) Z 7 chant a mean In- -Caw asr-.' dlaa chsnL , hsd. over nlglil i becoms soirellilnkw,ww of a Hteisry celebrity lus lu lha fart that his ana book hsd been taken by th IJtersry llulld snd wsa enjoying a wbls ssle. This sua Oliver 1st Karge. whns "Laughing lloy" captured Ihe Helton He-lton prise. Wa began lo talk of hi favorite atibjoct, which wsa tha American Indian. Kreeh trout Kanla IS and Tens, La S'args wss honeaily touched by Ihs thrratenrd extinguishment extin-guishment of Ihs redmua. Tint forcing of Amrrlcsnlmstloa upon Ihs Pubis race, ha held, was destroying de-stroying lha flrat Americans. lis talked of education In Inferior schools, of lourlBta who a Dolled Utein with quick coins, snd particularly parti-cularly of Ihs K'svajo. a tribe eape-clally eape-clally liiterealtng lo lilni. II wa particularly hitler about Iba reany-luonled reany-luonled lourlsla who "want wooden Indiana" rather lluji th real thing. Once a era ft amen snd sn srtlst, ones pmud snd lndeiendent. the Indian In-dian now Ilea and stssls; ha la becoming be-coming a cheap ham aeter. selling lak blanket and head. e e e 1 a Parge lore th Indian' adornment. When out In Ihs weal he wears a red buckskin coal, a tunlo made by Ihe ChuJ Indiana, a rirtli avenue a:teteon snd a baa-dans baa-dans liatidkerchlef shout bis Ihroal. His wirs laa owns a 1-galloa hai. Indian bracslcla and scck-lai-ea. ' One In New York they take an ultrsniodernlatle spsrtmenl, swsnky snd uvsr Hi river. A sliver Inlaid sudvll I la lb clustt. Ilia woik- a, ' room Is hung with Indlsn ruga snd drspea. He la tall and rangy; aa broan, slmosl, as an Indian. Yet h wss bom In Naw York, Iho son of an arenliert and lha grandson of a great artlef John lat targe, iia waa a Harvard graduate grad-uate and. after bavlng school. Interested In-terested lilmaelf ut one In archeology. arche-ology. a a e And sevsra years ago, while down In Itayton. Trrni- covering the rVepee "monkey Irlst. I ass billeted bil-leted off ond on with a certain Marquis Mar-quis J antra, down there for lha New York Tribune, who haa grabbed off Iho biography prls with "Th tla-ten." tla-ten." He Uvea today quietly In lira, sntvllle, S. Y a sort of revolt sgaluet llts (rind and tedium of Ihe city. Ha haa a hobby for gardening stid s fondness for tha outdnora. He bellevea that Jamas ttoyd's "long Hunt" should w In next year's prise. Ills own book, you mov recall, concerned a certain Ham Houston, llorn In Hprlnglleld, Ms, and reared In Oklalioins, ha met as a child Temple Houaton, son of lha ht"tnrlo Ham. Through his youth lis heard maay a lele of tha fsbuloaa Ham; wide-eyed lad listening lo the glamorous lutes of th early arai. He heard tela afler lain about that Houston who was a governor al W. and could. . . . .. hava been a Pees- ' II I II blent had be not It I II run away In lie- I I maaklng I II among Ihe In- " I dlana; whowreal. eSJll I d an amplra II 1 from Mexico ami JX Uveu gave II If J5; aA "III Btelea." J Wa w hen Jame- j a set duwu lo aril. . )f -al"" him a book, the? II old tales llraHleo ' Z I I hie mind. Otliet "fJ f things sboul linn k hs wss a "irsinii' -a reporter, roving lha land; ona of lha phtnaera on The New Yorker atagsxine; a war cerreeuondent ; national publicity director for .the American Legion; tha man wha broughe Marshal I'och to America and comlucied hla lour; a writer lor th "pulp paier" magsllnce: a the. slrirsl press scent and a rover who haa known rwjvatlon Army hotels. UII.HKKT MWAN. Ibepyrlghl, l3f, MuA Service, Uic ) |