Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boy from down under went back home this fall, too late to go to the war with the first Australian contingent of airmen, but certain to be in the next one sent to the front...
Bill Kendall, the Australian boy who was well on his way toward making swimming history at Harvard until he decided to leave college in the spring of 1938, is now in his native Australia waiting to join a contingent of airmen bound for the Western front...
...versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling of a boy...
...Malone, in person, is no glamor boy. He is an earnest, balding, fattish young man with a blond mustache, rumpled pants. No poet himself, he started out 15 years ago at KMBC, Kansas City, as a ukulele player. One day, just to fill in, he read from a book of poems, and poetry got him. Now it gets him $300 a week at NBC, and Poetaster Joseph Auslander, poetry consultant to the U. S. Library of Congress, once invited him to be U. S.'s "Voice of Poetry...
...cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...