Firewood Sellers in Korea. And Bobby McLean.

            The Postcard

A postcard that was posted in Korea on Monday the 16th. November 1903. It was sent to:

Miss Josephine Cooper,
27 Lansing Street,
Little Falls,
New York,
U.S.A.

The message on the back of the card was as follows:

"Fusan, Korea.
Mon. 16 - 11.
Arived here this morning
in a heavy cold wind and
rainstorm.
The tops of the mountains
are covered with snow."

A Deadly Fire in Cleveland

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 16th. November 1903, a fire destroyed an electric railway car barn and 72 streetcars in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Two Cleveland firefighters were killed when a wall collapsed on them.

Barbara McLean

The day also marked the birth in Palisades Park, New Jersey of the American film editor Barbara 'Bobby' McLean.

Barbara amassed a total of 62 film credits.

In the period when Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th. Century Fox Studio, from the 1930's through the 1960's, McLean was the studio's most prominent editor, and ultimately the head of its editing department. 

Barbara won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Wilson (1944). She was nominated for the same award on another six occasions, including All About Eve (1950). 

Her total of seven nominations for Best Editing Oscar was not surpassed until 2012 by Michael Kahn.

Barbara had an extensive collaboration with the director Henry King over 29 films, including Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Her impact was summarized by Adrian Dannatt in 1996 who wrote that:

"McLean was a revered editor who perhaps 
single-handedly established women as vital 
creative figures in an otherwise patriarchal 
industry."

Barbara died at the age of 92 in Newport Beach, California on the 28th. March 1996.
   

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