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"If I ever run out of money," John Held, Jr., Adams House art advisor and creator of the famous comic-sheet flapper, "Marge," stated last night, "I'm going to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never been an editor on either the 'New Yorker' or the old 'Life.' I was merely on their boards."
In his brief stay at Harvard, Held has found other causes for grudge. "The first day I was here the reporters quoted me as branding glamor girls 'the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists.' Actually I don't give a hoot whether the latest fad is the flapper or the glamor girl."
"I am enjoying my informal position in the University," Held commented. "The boys seem to think of me as a Father Confessor. They come down and chat not only about drawing, sculpting, horse-racing, and ping-pong, but one fellow the other day even began to talk over his frustrated sex life with me."
Held, who is deeply interested in animal life, is now working on the clay statue of a horse, "which may turn out to be a man or a mess." He is also planning a portrait bust of the late Heywood Broun '10, a close friend of the cartoonist.
A photographer from "Life" will take a series of pictures of Held today. "I'm not Ann sheridan," he commented, "but I'll pose my best."
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