The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, May 26, 2013 "#505" by Emily Dickinson. Public Domain. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 It's the birthday of documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895. She contracted polio when she was seven, and developed a permanent limp as a result. When she was 12, her father abandoned the family, so she dropped her middle name and adopted her mother's maiden name. She studied photography at Columbia University, and then in 1918 she began to travel, selling her photographs as she went. She ran out of money by the time she got to San Francisco, so she settled there, opened a photography studio, and made a good living shooting portraits of the Bay Area's upper class.
John Wayne fought WW2 from Hollywood while Jimmy Stewart was in the cockpit of a B17 over Germany. And Wayne is the symbol of macho valor?