poor EO ENE PTR Sif Baad ten es art ote wa ae ae a = oe ad ‘AW ty Clcape Tiihnn i ¥ awe. ipa ina, S by Russell Myers. OUT OF HERE AND $i NEUF, N NOT iN AUCTION OP BIDDING ‘ LADY... }é Pe ee ee ee TT es ene f+, ec fra ba eile See Strniriicee Prenteiennl ate ee se ESET HAGAR the HORRIBLE MOWRY, PETER! YOUMLE ly JOON HAVE YOUR CHANCE... fi THE Suse NOT WHAT HAPPENED 3 | GOT A_ DOONESBURY HE E HOME i aah our VOYAGE ANP His WIFE SERVED HIM FISH / LET'S GO” OUT For PINNER F 2 Paw his: ever CT RTTS wm. 1087 by Johnny Hert | re prrviretsy | vy mo By Abigail Van Buren +1083 by Uncrernas Prete Sncieete DEAR READERS: Ina recent column, 1 shared an inspirational iteri sent by Herman Endler, who, at? _ age 40, suffered a stroke that left him totally dis-- abled. He wrote:. . “T waan't able to get out of bed, but by the grace of : God and a surgeon's skill, | made it. AttimeaI wasso __ despordent,-I prayed it would all end. Then a friend gave me the ericlosed inspirational piece, which I must have read 1,000 times, T had momenta when my vision clouded, and E thought, ‘This is it; this is the end.” Then I'd read that message again, and it pulled me through. “Abby, some of the greatest men and women of cur times have been saddled with disabilities and ad- versities but have managed ta overcome then. “Perhaps somewhere there.is someone who is at the end of his or her r rope and \ neetle encouragement, *Crppk Land) you have # SIF Writer Scott. - Lock he In a prison cell, and you, have a dobn * ‘Buny “Bory him im the snows of Valley Forge, and you . have a George. Washington. “Raise him in abject poverty, and you ‘have an Abraham Lincoln.’ “Subject him to bitter religious Prejudice, and you have a Disraeli.” e respanse to that column was overwhelming. A . dintinguiehed publisher, philanthropist and former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain wrote: : “Dear Abby: Your colemn, ‘From ‘Adveralty, Many ‘Pind Strength,” is indeed a masterpiece. I am adding ft to my personal collection of ‘reminders.’ “There are two great scurces of inspiration in life, - - enthusiasm and tragedy, and I have been boxed in-by both. But having been b6xed in by both, I also ‘recognize that perseverance iq the key to escape and watisfaction. Sincerely, Walter Anneriberg.” Hundreds of readers submitted additional names forthe list of those who had succeeded against 1 the odds. me contributions follow: - - Spit om hier, humiliate him, then crucify him and! he . ‘forgives tnd and you have Jesus Christ. Strike him down with Infantile paralysis, and he, becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president _of the U.S, to be elected to four terms. When he is a lad of 8, burn him a0 severely ina schoothoure fire that the dectors say he will never walk again, and you have a Gienn Cunningham, who © _ wet the world's record in 1934 for running 4 mile in4 minutes and 6.7 seconds. Deafen a genits composer who continues to com- pose some of the world’s most beautiful music, and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Drag him, more dead than alive, out of a rice paddy in. Vietnam, and you have a Rocky Bleler, that beautiful running back with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Have him or her born biack in a society Milled with . wacial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Marion Anderson,” George Washington Carver or Martin Luther King Jr. Make him the first child to survive in a poor Italian family of 18 children, and you have an Enrico Caruso. Amputate the arm and leg of an aspiring young actor, and you have a James Btacey. Have him born of parénta who survived a Nazi concentration camp, paralyze him from the waist down when he is 4, and you have the incomparable concert violinist; Itzhak Perlman. - Call a slow learner “retarded” and write him offas ineducable, and you have an Albert Elnetein. ‘See, tomorrow's column for othera who have suc- ceeded against the odds. ; | B26 JMZYYRZG PEH ZPZRERTL GDECC. | “2GED LYH JMZVYRT — - poigaenay's Craplogup — BIG DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT 7 Is. w at yee rine.” anaes jesdidé wo: thie be cats off ile ot war, and you ave a Visceat | r Max. Cleland, who lost bot - he bas no talent, and you have s Walt Dien: ‘Refreshing Draft from | Spring of Inspiration: 7 - DEAR READERS: Yenterday’s cotemn with names (cubmitted by my vrs coleman was filled whe? mansged to ‘agniant the vous. Todeg"e ie: continuinee of that list: ‘Haye a thelidomid hild bara with: ec n dwarted, : oa without arms, and you have a Wiles, who, with the aid of mechanteal, derteen. , learned to play the electric o ter and paint. awn . , _Amputate the cancer-riddon leg of Pe Wendosme, young Canadian, and you have a Terry Fox, who: vowed to run on one leg across the whole of Canada: to raise a million dollars for cancer research. (Terry : was forced to quit halfway when cancer invaded hia: - : lungs, bot to date has eased shout G26 million.) = After having loat both legs in an air crash, Tet ‘a; Bath fighter pilot fly again with the RAF, and you: havea Douglas Bader, who, with two artificial lirabs, : was captored by the Germans three times daring : World War Il — and escaped three times!” “F ‘Blind him and you have a Ray Charles, George’ _-Bhearing, Stevi Stevie Wonders Tom Sullivan, Alec Temple- or ‘Lebel him “too stupid to learn,” and you hava a.- -|- Thomas Edison, -Make him a - Bi Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Tell ber she’s too old to start painting a 60, ad you ORES. j . Van Gogh. . Your fist would nat be complete without a ‘cniling Vietaamn and now heads th Velerans nn Adon intet m: w he eV tion in Washington, D.C. nistre Don’t forget Patricia Neal, the fine actress who suffered a severe stroke, but rehabilitated horeelf against overwhelming odds, . Blind him at age 44, and ee ie pone Jokn 1 Milton, ‘who, 16 yeara later, wrote “Par: Call bim dull and hopeless and fea hit to the | : Sixth grade, and you have a Winston Churchill. * Punish her with poverty and prejudice, and she. may survive to become another Golds Meir; Pither seainst sexual discrimination, and you have! a Madame Curi Tella young boy who loved to sketch anddraw that. Take a crippled child whose cnly homes See Wost, who became the fi rat ehlet exeeatiy sotthe Bow: e the Seoute ci Americ. . ? of the Boy. te as “mediocre” in hhemish >. 0 Fatal aad yon svat 8 a homose: and he angelo ands million other rere ih Pt i disabilities are physical and who have won sealns} odds ieknowe cM sas itagns hess und eat wery \y as its own whom there fs no medal distisguished Toren ee baie A them for their accomplishments. ‘you, Whose names here deserve to, that 5 dedicate this cone bet. “De youtisie to write letters because you dow’t hasing what to say? 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