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...haunts in Port Arthur, Ont, Irish emotions welled up in the 66-year-old father of the documentary film, Robert (Nanook of the North) Flaherty: "It's very sad for me; most of my pals are gone, we're in another age." Also back in his hometown (Aspen, Colo.), shock-headed New Yorker Editor Harold Ross said that he hoped to clear up a mystery: "My mother always told me that [I was born] on the day Grover Cleveland was elected. But I've never been able to figure out why they'd have an election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Sources | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Spender was here in 1949 to give a Morris Gray Poetry Reading. Last summer he spoke at the Goethe Bicentennial at Aspen, Colorado...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spender Speaks On Goethe Today | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...merely descriptive prose of what happens out here in the West. I suggest that you arrange to arrive at Quaking Aspen Meadow in the Sierras when it comes on toward night, and the sun is down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes are beginning to yip on the hills (very, very eerie) and the stars to light up, and there is the good smell of aspen wood smoke in the air-and nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...also use some unashamed, sugary, overripe prose: "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose." But most readers will be thankful for a fictional fidelity to time & place that is wholly exceptional among Guthrie's competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On to Oregon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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