My Favorite Cherokee
<p>According to my grandparents, the news of one man dying in August of 1935 struck them like the deaths of both Kennedy and Lennon, a simultaneous earthquake in both politics and entertainment. The <em>New York Times</em> devoted 13 full pages to coverage of this death two days after it happened, almost four pages the next day, and the ink kept flowing for over a week. On the <em>Times</em> editorial page, the editors with whom that man had clashed many times opined: “He came to hold such a place in the public mind that, of his passing from the stage it might be said…that it will ‘eclipse the gayety of nations.’ Let us hope… some one may arise to help us as he did to keep our mental poise, to avoid taking all our national geese for swans, and by wholesome laughter make this world seem a better place to live in.”</p>
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