Me: Watched Rolling with Mr. Jim and both of us very moved … tears. Lovely. Powerful. Sweet. 👏🏻 Jim:”My family has always been very impressed with where he has been and now where he might be going.”
It's unlikely you're related to him but my maternal grandfather was Luther D. Bradley, political cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News until he died in 1917. He was a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt, from whom he received two thank-you notes for his supportive cartoons. In honor of Mark Twain's death in 1910, Bradley drew a cartoon depicting Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn "rolling down" the Mississippi River. Steve Rickert '65
Hi Steve, Unfortunately it doesn't sound like we’re cousins, but I’d always love to see that Huck and Tom cartoon if you have a copy! Thanks for writing.
Bill, I recall your writing your senior thesis at Princeton on a Harry Truman Senatorial election campaign. That reminds me that , at the age of 5, I wore a Truman presidential re-election button to elementary school one time in the fall of 1948. The corner patrol boy in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C., mocked my button by saying, "Truman? He doesn't stand a chance against Dewey."
Bill, I see you just won the John C. Whitehead Leadership Award from Youth INC. I don't know if you ever encountered John, who was my second cousin. You may know that he was Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Deputy Secretary of State, and Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. after 9-11. When I asked him for career advice, he would say I should stay in one place and work my way to the top. Against his advice, I worked for 11 different financial institutions without rising to the top, as he did! If you haven't read it, I recommend his book, "A Life in Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero."
The Mark Twain cartoon by Luther Bradley (my grandfather) for "The Chicago Daily News" (subsequently acquired by "The Chicago Tribune") is housed at the Library of Congress. Here is a link to the image:
Me: Watched Rolling with Mr. Jim and both of us very moved … tears. Lovely. Powerful. Sweet. 👏🏻 Jim:”My family has always been very impressed with where he has been and now where he might be going.”
Thanks so much to you and Jim, that really means a lot to me. I’m so glad you liked the film.
It's unlikely you're related to him but my maternal grandfather was Luther D. Bradley, political cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News until he died in 1917. He was a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt, from whom he received two thank-you notes for his supportive cartoons. In honor of Mark Twain's death in 1910, Bradley drew a cartoon depicting Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn "rolling down" the Mississippi River. Steve Rickert '65
Hi Steve, Unfortunately it doesn't sound like we’re cousins, but I’d always love to see that Huck and Tom cartoon if you have a copy! Thanks for writing.
Bill, I recall your writing your senior thesis at Princeton on a Harry Truman Senatorial election campaign. That reminds me that , at the age of 5, I wore a Truman presidential re-election button to elementary school one time in the fall of 1948. The corner patrol boy in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C., mocked my button by saying, "Truman? He doesn't stand a chance against Dewey."
Bill, I see you just won the John C. Whitehead Leadership Award from Youth INC. I don't know if you ever encountered John, who was my second cousin. You may know that he was Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Deputy Secretary of State, and Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. after 9-11. When I asked him for career advice, he would say I should stay in one place and work my way to the top. Against his advice, I worked for 11 different financial institutions without rising to the top, as he did! If you haven't read it, I recommend his book, "A Life in Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero."
Hello Bill,
The Mark Twain cartoon by Luther Bradley (my grandfather) for "The Chicago Daily News" (subsequently acquired by "The Chicago Tribune") is housed at the Library of Congress. Here is a link to the image:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b03866/
The "comments" format here would not allow me to copy the cartoon image into the box.
Good to hear from you,
Steve
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