Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Ufford will be matched against Clyde Barker, who boat him last year when Ufford played for Deorfield. Charlie has learned a lot since then, and the match should be a good...
Timely Trip. Koerner hoped to be a carnival barker, cook, singer, and then an engineer ("I flunked the exam for engineering school, which was a blessing"), finally settled for commercial art. His art teacher in Vienna recalls him as a hard worker with a talent for parodying the German goose step. Koerner spent his summer vacations walking and sketching in Italy, France, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. At 23, he crossed the Alps into Italy for the last time. The Nazis had entered Austria...
Koerner found the steps for The Pigeons at Brooklyn's Borough Hall, "though the scene goes far back into my childhood." The Barker's Booth was a memory of an amusement park in Vienna, rediscovered at Coney Island. Like Monkey Bars and The Lot, with its engineless, wheelless car and painted palm trees, each of those pictures was what he calls "a balanced structure of contradictions" -a mingling of reality and illusion...
...East Side. In her first novel she has ventured into one of fiction's most difficult areas: the amoral, grotesquely furnished mind of childhood. Few writers have explored it successfully; Meg is not in the same class with Richard Hughes's Innocent Voyage or A. L. Barker's Innocents (TIME, March 22, 1948). Author Keogh knows Meg, all right, but mostly from the outside, and her startling little novel seems more like random notes for a better...
...BARKER Detroit, Mich...