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Heimer and Artist Pause make Arpad a highly contemporary character. He Victory-gardened feverishly last spring. During the current wastepaper drive he has been pictured swooping patriotically. Except for allowing him an annual New Year's Eve binge, Heimer and Pause keep Arpad continent despite many protests from other staffers that he should enjoy the society of a hen now & then.
The popularity of Arpad and his little nephew, Gabe (who was added a year or so ago as a stooge), has reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper).