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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeremy Lopez, post: 11548225, member: 89807&quot;]Baker was a wonderful writer but somewhat sloppy, often mixing memory &amp; desire. Early Time, as it happens, was notoriously sloppy on the editorial side too. For example in the feature on the Bar-ette they printed Baker&#039;s name as &quot;Childs H. Baker, Jr.&quot; I think that some of the features referred to in the Time piece, in particular the three-wheeled form, are from the model Baker saw in Shanghai. Whatever he said or wrote to Time, and whatever they read or heard, the versions got mingled in the blurb. Baker&#039;s design patent (linked above) shows 4 wheels. &quot;Shirley Paine&quot; was *definitely* a pseudonym that Baker used while writing copy for this feature, i.e. not a real female person - there is both external and internal evidence for this, which I discuss in my article. I am writing a literary biography of Baker (in which that Hemingway photo features prominently) and am happy to talk anyone&#039;s ear off about him, though this might not be the appropriate forum. Here, I am most interested in actually seeing/purchasing the physical object pictured in the ad, so if you have or do ever come across one, please let me know![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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