Encyclopedia Brunonia: S.J. Perelman
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Description: Entry on one of Brown University's most noteworthy alumni from Marcia Mitchell's work for the institution's library.
Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Perelman, S. J. Office of University Communications Providence RI 02912 From Martha Mitchell’s (1904-1979), humorist, was born in Brooklyn on February 1, 1904, but grew up in Providence, where his father raised chickens (for which his son cherished a life-long hatred), and operated a dry-goods store on Smith Hill. The young Perelman attended the Candace Street Grammar School and Classical High School, and worked at his father’s store, at Shepard’s Department Store in the candy department, and at the Outlet Company where he folded boxes. At Classical he was a finalist in an essay contest, and he always felt that his topic, science vs. religion, lost him the prize. At his father’s store he practiced drawing on the cardboard strips from the bolts of cloth. He came to Brown in the fall of 1921, one of the “carpetbaggers,” who commuted daily to the campus. He had thought of becoming a doctor, but quickly changed his plans because, as he said, “The things that interested me at Brown were the English courses and the
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