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...colors are emerald green and white, its gems the emerald and the pearl, its flower the lily of the valley. Proud is A. D. to count among many another dead and living famed member the following: Theodore Roosevelt.Charles Francis Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Owen Wister. Stephen Vincent Benet...
...palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
...have been awarded 417 Fellowships on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation which Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Hirsh, established in memory of their son who died in 1922. Average stipend is $2,500. Many a Guggenheim Fellow has done well with his year of freedom: Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling...
...Barry is a product of what was called the Yale Literary Renaissance, a microscopic affair which began vigorously with Stephen Vincent Benet, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder et al. but was soon washed from the campus in an ocean of afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced...
...Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Brot Harte, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Alfred Noyes, and Stephen Vincent Benet...