Grimkov vents (was juggling work & family)

[/ dave /]

Carl Alexandrovitch Grimkov, aka C. Grimes, wrote:

> http://www.rawbw.com/~cgrimes/homepage/kalashnikov.gif

which returns:

> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /~cgrimes/homepage/kalashnikov.gif
> on this server.

But there's another one here, temporarily:

http://fnast.com/003.html
(and best not look at http://fnast.com/002.html, or your eyes will turn
to rock-hard emeralds)

Just read a great book - for me, anyway - on "The Other Minneapolis,"
exploring the 19th-century genesis and eventual 20th-century demise of
the skid row area (skid row, btw, is a *logging*-related term that
originated in Seattle), formerly known as the Gateway, in Minneapolis -
the very heart of the city. Of little interest to anyone here, save the
fact that it of course touched on the pivotal 1934 Teamsters' Strike
that had international repercussions. (There's at least one worthwhile
book on that subject that I'm going to track down one of these days...)

This ties in with the 1946 Eric Sevareid autobiography that I'm still
working on. He was a local and covered the aforementioned labor unrest
for the Minneapolis Journal shortly after he graduated from the Univ. of
Minnesota. His involvement with the Left here in town was fairly
extensive in his early days. Some interesting anecdotes about the
meetings of the local Silver Shirts who worshipped the fascist William
Dudley Pelley, leader of the Christian Party, conspiracy-mongers par
excellence - Elders of Zion, secret handshakes, the whole bit. (Sevareid
then went on to the UK and Europe and covered World War II on radio with
Murrow and others, as many will know...)

Which leads, obliquely, to the William Herrick novel of the Spanish
Civil War, _Hermanos_. Herrick was involved in the fighting at the time,
but didn't publish the book until years later, in the late '60s. Any
opinions of same? I'm imagining a "you-are-there" immediacy informed by
his direct experience in the conflict, but filtered through a post-'60s
lens. I'm hoping to plunge into that in a week or so.

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/  dave  /