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VOLUME 13
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY. MAY 29,1970
NUMBER 11
Ethel Cook, who will shortly
celebrate her 90th birthday, as
will her lifelong friend, Mat-
tie Turnbull, says Eddie Paul,
Sr., paid her a visit the other
day.
He brought her a neatly tied
bundle of past New Bern Mir
rors, and asked her to see that
they reached Ethel's daughter,
Elsie (Mrs. Crowe Cooke) who
showed much consideration for
Ed’s wife during her last Ill
ness-
Carefully placed on the top of
the stack of papers was the Is
sue that carried an editorial
about Ethel, Mattie and the
third member of their truly
ageless group, the late Nlta
WWtty.
Mabel and Eddie Paul, who
remained sweethearts during
a marriage of more than half a
century, saved their weekly
copies of The Mirror through
the sunset years. We didn’t
know they were doing it, but the
revelation touched us deeply.
No less touched will be Elsie,
who remembers her hometown
fondly, and Is the sort to ap
preciate a thoughtful gesture
like Eddie’s at a time when
grief might have made him con
cerned only with his own loss.
Eddie and Mabel, as newly
weds, first knew this editor as
a small boy growing up on up
per Pollock street- They used
to pass our house, arm inarm,
with a happy glow In their eyes
that failed to fade In later
years.
The little boy they used to
smile at In the long ago didn’t
turn out to be a whopping suc
cess. However, life did bring
its dividends, and that stack of
saved Mirrors, passed along to
someone else as something of
value, happens to be one of those
dividends.
* e * * e * * *
New Bernians who visit New
York City during the next the
atrical season can attend a
Broadway show, grab a bite to
eat after It’s over, and still
get their beauty sleep.
In the past, curtain tlmehas
always been 8:30 or 8:40, but
from now on things will get
underway at 7:30 sharp. This
decision by the League of New
York Iheaters Isn’t aimed at
tourists, but business people
who have to get up early.
Undoubtedly the new hour
will affect theatrical produc
tions In tank towns too. Here
In New Bern, and throughout
America’s polka-dot pattern of
smaller communities, amateur
thesplans often unveil their
productions at 8:30, presum
ably to give the evening a
Broadway touch.
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Yesterday was when your
response to almost anything
somebody said was either ”It
ain’t nothing previous” or
"So is your old man.” And of
course you voiced a stamp of
approval very cleverly when
you quipped ‘It’s the cat’s
meow.”
Yesterday was when having
your picture taken proved to be
an ordeal- For the self-con
scious It still Is. Able Lincoln
could have sympathized with
these timid souls, since he al
ways got tense before the cam
era too.
Matthew Brady, more than
any other photographer, man
aged to maneuver Lincoln into
approximate relaxation, and it
(CullUnited on page K)
A THING OF BEAUTY — We take great pride in
bringing you this lovely photograph, and express grat
itude to the distinguished camerai
^ cameraman who shares
it with our Mirror readers. By profession Dr. Bruce
Schlein is a 33 year old pathologist at the Durham
V.A. and Duke Hospital, with special interests in
blood banking and cytology, interested in photogra
phy since medical school, he has given one man
shows at U.N.C. at Greensboro, Duke University,
Olden Gallery, and the Ivy Room In Durham. Ho
has won awards at the N. C. State Fair, Allied Arts
of Durham, and from Eastman Kodak. As might be
expected of one of his exceptional talent, he is a
much admired member of the Carolina Designer
Craftsmen Guild. Dr. Schlein is the type of friend
who would do this kind of favor for the editor of a
small town weekly.