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| Chicago Tribune, December 4, 1949, H12 |
"With an expression compounded of fear, surprise, wonder and interest, the little boy searched the faces in the crowds hurrying past him, glanced occasionally upwards to be certain that he was under the big Marshall Field clock, and returned from time to time the questioning smiles of a few sympathetic passers-by. The important thing was that he was lost. The edge of excitement and fear was removed from his heart as well as his face when his mother found him, and the experience remained in his mind colored with faint regret and the knowledge that it was not entirely genuine."
Thus begins Fritz Peter's clearest memory of his early years in Chicago; of his mother taking him and his brother Tom shopping at the Marshall Field's toy department before Christmas and of her telling them to meet her under the big clock at the corner of State and Randolph streets "if you should get lost."
This reminiscence was published on December 4, 1949, 69 years ago today shortly after the release of his very successful novel, The World Next Door.
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