Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1958)

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MARK DAMON: "I hated 99 being POOR! Tt was a windy day, I remember — and -" whooing gusts of wind chased around the street corners and rattled the windowpanes of our crowded tenement in Chicago's tumbledown West Side. I hadn't started school yet. I was almost six. My mother and I were waiting for the stranger. My baby brother Bob was sleeping in his crib. "When the gentleman comes." my mother told me, "you behave like a gentleman. He's coming to help us." My mother always tried to appear calm in front of us, but I knew she was upset, that things were bothering her. I had heard her crying at night for a couple of weeks, and I remember being scared everytime I heard her cry. She tried to amuse my brother and me with funny stories all day long, but at night when she went to bed and the lights were out, I'd hear her sobbing in her pillow and I'd go to her and ask what was the matter. And she'd say, "Nothing, my son, nothing. I'm only clearing my throat. I must be catching cold." Although those winters in the late thirties were miserable winters,-long, bleak stretches of biting-cold weather that chilled you to your bones — my mother was lying to me. It wasn't a cold that bothered her. It was worry, and the fear (Continued on page 66) as told to Tony Stevens