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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1983
Page
24
Editor notes Carl Van Vechten, born 1880 in Cedar Rapids, left after high school and never returned, though his work drew from and commented on his hometown. The Tattooed Countess (1924) satirizes a small city with Cedar Rapids figures hidden in Maple Valley.
A Cedar Rapids born writer and critic, Carl Van Vechten rose to fame in New York as a music critic and novelist. He promoted Russian ballet, supported black artists, photographed prominent figures, and fostered literary ties with Stein, Gershwin, and Johnson.
Salvation Army will hold Friday food distributions at 1000 C Ave NW due to a scheduling conflict, with hours 9 to 11:30 a.m. unchanged. Other sites in the Human Services Emergency Survival Needs Committee network run on their normal days and hours, including St. Mark's United Methodist Church on Monday and HACAP Central City on Tuesday, with details for each location and a note on single-site weekly food pickup.
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