Word: ashbrook
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When he was still a lonely high school kid in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the factory worker's son who would later become -- in Critic Peter Stitt's phrase -- "one of the very great heroes of American poetry" used to drop by Margret Ashbrook's house and slide his poems across the table for Margret and her mom to see. "He showed us a poem that had the word slob in it, and we told him that was an unpoetic word," recalls Margret. "But he said that's how it is, and that's how he feels, and that...
DIED. John M. Ashbrook, 53, a conservative Republican Congressman from Ohio for 22 years; apparently of a heart attack; in Newark, Ohio. A former chairman of the American Conservative Union, he sometimes let his fierce rhetoric overshadow his personal charm. In 1972 he challenged President Nixon in four Republican primaries but never got more than 10% of the vote. After a string of victories in his district, Ashbrook was seeking his party's nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Howard Metzenbaum...