Laura Publishing Company
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Waldo Lydecker: [about Laura] I read my articles to her. The way she listened was more eloquent than speech.
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Waldo Lydecker: It was Jacoby, who had recently painted her portrait. I never liked the man. He was so obviously conscious of looking more like an athlete than an artist. I sat up the rest of the night writing a column about him. I demolished his affectations, exposed his camouflaged imitations of better painters, ridiculed his theories. I did it for her, knowing Jacoby was unworthy of her. It was a masterpiece because it was a labor of love.