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SUNDAY DECEMBER: 25; I960. This Looey Was a Lulu Mm m8sn zmie znv 1 Back when Luis K. KtjMir.cs was a small boy, we imagine thing? confusing when Mama veiled. "Lxvy her! and forgot to yell the r.uui'e Then? were nine Looeys in the Re noes holcl. from each ether middle initials, and we at" these little Looeys scrambling- xr.

er summons. In this week's of the STNIWY NEWS we are primarily ccr.err.ei the Looey whose middle w-as E. This Luis E. patently was the pjretter. Became a successful prefer kr.al r.un and did it like a flash, with the of a rather curious form of schooling.

Looey E.s little saga, which was brought to a gray ending by the New York cops, is unfolded 0:1 the opposite page. Collecting autographs is a hobby dating all the way back to ancient Greece when men actually collected stone tablets. Somewhat less far I hAVE old letter bearing a famous signature or a diary of someone in your family who, while not famous, participated in some interesting facet of early American life such as whaling or the Gold Rush. Don't toss it in the trash basket. Consult a reliable autograph expert.

You may hit an unexpectedly high jackpot. One of the nation's topflight experts is dealer Charles Hamilton of New York, a human dynamo of many talents, most of them directed toward digging up fascinating and lucrative autograph "finds." The digging, in some ways has all the suspense of a police hunt a search for clues, the sifting of the clues, then deduction and finally capture, the "captive" in this instance being a rare document or letter. Kermit Jaediker interviewed Hamilton, who uncorked some intriguing secrets about his unusual trade. Turn to "Signature Sleuth," on Page 4. In deference to the season, and to the unquenchable spirit of a man, sports writer Harry Cronin has turned in the heart-touching story of Maury Stokes, a great basketball player felled by a paralyzing malady.

Stokes' slow, slow struggle toward the world of normal living has been a tough one, lightened in good measure by the help he has received from a teammate, Twyman. Whether you're a sports fan or just someone who enjoys an inspiring tale, we suggest you turn to Page 26. Last week the SUNDAY News Coloroto Magazine gave you a picture of the secular side of Christmas. This week the Magazine is dedicated to the religious side. Religion is- rich in art and several of the Magazine's pages feature the beauty of religious paintings produced by the great masters of old.

As a kind of balance, we also reproduce the works of a humbler art- YCu AUTOCKAPr! ist, Edward B. Webster of suburban New Rochelle. Webster is a retired mailman who never -attended art school. But he does quite well. His rather stylized works appear on Pages 14 and 15 of the magazine.

On the magazine's cover Is a magnificent Botticelli "Madonna and Child, St. John and Angels." The original, which hangs in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, was photographed by Sunday News color-cameramen Robert Cranston and Arthur Sasse. Today many of you will spend the hallowed morning in church and later there will be gay family reunions', good food and of course an exuberant testing on the part of small fry of new dolls, new bikes, new cars and skates and baseball gear and spacecraft and the usual horning-in of fathers on the operation of Junior's electric train set. To all of you we of the Sunday News staff wish good cheer and that greatest of material giftsi health. And we hope that the warmth and jgood-fellowship of this magic day are reiterated among you day after day, throughout the years.

WHERRY CHRISTMAS! THE EDITORS. back in time, Goethe was an ardent follower of the hobby, and so was Queen Victoria. J. P. Morgan spent millions on his collection.

You may not be a collector but you might possibly pick up a fat check by uncovering a valuable autograph. Some day, when you're cleaning out the attic, you may run across an If 1 kaS i Jli Uir tklMlI of SerYoilA ImmM Ml 1 Thirty cents from a schoolgirls pocket has been suitably acknowledged, although it took the New York City Fire Department, New York and New Haven, Conn newspapers and the New Haven Departmen of Vital Statistics to do it. The 30 rents was contributed No landmark is invulnerable to progress in New York City. The Hippodrome fell. So did the elevateds.

The Roxy went. Even the spires on the top of the Queensborough Bridge were doomed, ruled unsafe because of to a fund for the families of three papers to help find the "Little Miss Anderson's letter heartened all of delighted and its sloping roof, its clock and its perpetually shining light will not change, at least not as far as the untrained eye can see. Some stonework will be replaced and firemen who died fighting a fire in lower Manhattan. After the fund, called the Dependents Fund, Rroadway Fire, was set up, contrihutions came in frem hundreds of persons. The gifts totaled $18,914 and each one was acknowledged personally hy Fire Commissioner Edward F.

Cavanagh Jr. 'I Felt Sad' There was one that couldn't be. It was a quarter and a nickel sent in with a message written on ruled school notebook paper. "I heard about the firemen's fam- Haven Junior High School was informed she was wanted in the principal's, office, she thought the worst, as any normal schoolgirl would. She was even more upset when she saw the group of strange men in the office.

Quick Recovery After she was told they were photographers and reporters and why they were there, she recovered quickly enough to ask to comb her hair before having her picture taken. The money, she explained, was given to her by her father for helping her mother. She made her decision after hearing about the fire tragedy on the radio. "It just seemed the thing to do," sh said. One landmark defying change, however is the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building tower.

It has sent forth "the light that never fails" since it was built in 1909 and, largely through the efforts of one man, it will (keep on shining- The 700-foot buildinV at 24th St. and Madison Ave. is being evacuated -above the 32d floor because the company has a new home office building at 23d and Madison. The upper floors will be used for storage. The interior of the lower floors is going to be altered greatly, with new elevators and stairs, new plumbing and air conditioning.

But the tower with its pillars, us, tie said. Newspapermen phoned every Anderson family in Wallingford but none of them was the rifrht one. On a hunch, one man called the New Haven Department of Vital Statistics. Wallingford is only 10 miles from New Haven, the county seat. Blonde With Freckles Sure enough there was a Karen Anderson recorded, daughter Mr.

and Mrs. Warren Anderson, North Haven, Conn. When a blonde and freckle-faced seventh grader at North SUNDAYS NEWS 220 East 42d St. NIW TOMS FICIUM MlWSrwil. Tel.

MUrray Hill 2-1234 MAIN SECTION FOOD Favorite Recipe A Party Dessert HOME FURNISHINGS Palatial Mood 21 15 16 WORLD'S GREATEST 'COMICS 16 pg Youth Rides Bumper, Saves Abducted Girl 3 Signature Sleuth 4, 5 Around Town 6 Gil Thorp 1 1 Justice: The Blue Monday Marauder 16, 17 Sports: Big Day for Maury 26 This landmark will stay 196 OOeceittberiq 60 Sun Jfon Tu TvW TAa fri Sat 18 19 20B 22 23 24 Features: COLOROTO MAGAZINE On the Cover "Madonna and Child" by Botticelli Personality in THE NEWS William Bendix 4 Tuning In on TV Cutting Them to the Quick 6 Charley Channel 5 Manger Scenes 3 Diorama L. I. Bank Hat Life-siie Figures 9 Voices off Christmas 10,11 In the Centerfold Nativity Paintings 12,13 Gospel Paintings is Insight Into Courage Blind Brother and Sister 18. 19, 20 Crossword Puzz'e 21 The Nativity in Art Exhibits at St. Joseph's College 22,23 For the Homemaker FASHIONS International Designer Pattern 1 7 E326 27 28 29 30 31 some removed entirely because of erosion.

Wiring will be changed from DC to AC. Lloyd Morgan, architect for the new building, said, "A person looking up from the streets should not be aware of the difference." There was some question of1 "whether the tower should he. preserved. Chief element in the decision to keep it "as is" was Frederick H. Ecker, 93, the com-nanv's honorary chairman.

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There is cents ih here and I hope it will help the three families out." The not was' signed "Karen Anderson. With no' crther information besides a Wallingford, postmark, Cavanagh aked news- 8 9 13 27 9 18 26 12 25 23" 21 Sports El? 3 4 5 6,7 oMit aiw mrl Inquiring Fotog. 13 Bob Sylvester Jumble 22' Theatres Love Matters 22 TV. Radio ing as controller in the 1900s, he made all the decisions for the construction of the building, the taHest in the world at that time. Van Dellen furnished each Suii.la Kntered as 2d class matter.

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