Word: ans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitting Reason. In Detroit, Willis Walton, stopped by an alert store owner, explained how he happened to have eight pairs of pants wrapped around his waist under his coat: "I needed a pair . . . and wanted to be sure to get the right size."
But midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader...
The Records. The album of records accompanying Frankenberg's book is good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit...
Bargain. In Chicago, Zoologist Robert Bean announced that the price of an elephant, which was $4,000 last year, has gone down to $3,000.
Double Reward. In Custer, S. Dak., Forestry Service Foreman Steven Hoy, who treated his own wounds after an accident, received a Red Cross Certificate of Merit for saving his own life.