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"He chose one from Mr Miller's window, a plain guitar with no fancy polish. While the picture was taken, Mr Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, 'I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee'".
A KNOWLEDGEABLE CELEBRITY
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, "A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity".   This has ALWAYS been Carl's attitude.   Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants. He walked home at night for two miles beyond the end of a suburban trolley. When fame came it changed Sandburg only slightly. Lewis remembered another newspaperman asking, "Carl, have your ideas changed any since you got all these comforts"?