Swamp Cabbage and Angel Wings: A Collection of Editorials by Dale Wimbrow [SIGNED]

Near fine condition color illustrated softcover paper wraps with a decorative brown rope spine attachment. Includes Preliminary Page entitled Dale Wimbrow by Ernest Lyons, Editor Stuart News and additional Preliminary Page regarding the editorials and poems in the book. Illustrated with black-and-white silhouette drawings. Inconspicuous two inch repaired closed tears at bottom edges of pages 4 and 5. All other pages are in fine condition with age toning to all page edges and some rubbing to The lower right rear cover and some small front cover bits of wear (see photographs. Signed by the author with blue ink at the lower right section of the Preliminary Page entitled Dale Wimbrow. "Dale Wimbrow. There is a creature on a planet of a star who runs filling stations, crawls to the aid of a buddy on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea, lambasts Mayors and Presidents, attends PTA meetings, dishes out for the Jaycees and the Boy Scouts, aspires to a divinity little lower than the angels and makes a darned fool of himself with amazing regularity. He is Mr. and Mrs. USA and Junior. Millions of words are written about him every day by thousands of men, but few have the awareness and insight, the deep feeling for America and humanity at large, to write from the human heart with sympathy and understanding. Dale Wimbrow, in one edition of his celebrated Indian River News, lets us share the pride of the hamburger chef at Joe & May's stand on the arrival of a son and heir and in a column alongside reminds our souls that the Lord God Almighty is weighing us in the balance, considerably disappointed, but still on our side. Though it be humor to charm, poetic insight to awaken our spirits, or a crusading challenge to right a wrong, his is the gift to make the reader say: "That's how I feel, too." Honored by his fellow newspapermen as the master craftsman of them all in editorial expression, winner of the first and last Florida Prress Association's Oscars, he is honored more by those friends who know his courage, intergrity, capacity for friendship and ability to laugh. We are all the richer that he has complied this collection of editorials -- and for knowing him." -- Ernest Lyons, Editor, Stuart News, from the Preliminary Page entitled Dale Wimbrow. "The editorials and poems in this book were written by Dale Wimbrow, with the exception of "Fifteen sez to Fifty" written by his son Pete Jr. and "Father, Dear Father" written by his daughter Sallydale. Dale Wimbrow, editor-publisher and owner of "The Indian River News," a small weekly newspaper in Florida, wrote the poem "The Guy in the Glass" for a contest held by The American Magazine in answer to a seventeen year old boy's question whether it paid to be honest. It states the Wimbrow philosophy. St. Joseph's Retreat at Malvern, Pennsylvania gave it as a parting souvenir to each visitor. It has been read twice into the Congressional Records. The editorial "Bloodiy Highways" was awarded the first Florida Press Association Editorial "Oscar" (1949) in competition with all Florida newspapers. The editorial "Motor (R) age" was awarded the 1952 Florida Press Association Editorial "Oscar" in competition with all weekly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly and small daily newspapers. The Indian River News was presented with the bronze plaque by the FLorida Press Association for the year 1951 as first place award in the State of Florida for "Community Service." "Our Song of Shame" was read into the Congressional Records in Washington by Florida's Representative Dwight Rogers, and a copy of the poem was presented to each of the Legislators in the Florida Legislature by State Representative ALex Mac William. Dale's editorials and poems have been reprinted and broadcast in many parts of the United States . . This collection was printed to supply the steadily increasing request for additional copies of the editorials and poems." -- excerpt from the Preliminary Page entitled Swamp Cabbages and Angel Wings.…