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...Auden's revisions are one sign that he takes his poetry seriously-and knows that it is influential. Even more than T. S. Eliot, he is responsible for the unfettered, almost conversational tone that makes modern poetry sound modern. His manner has always been topical, chatty, a bit brash, unfailingly poised, only rarely lyrical. Above all, Auden's work suggests that there is nothing a poet cannot write poetry about, and most young poets since the early '30s have borrowed his air of verbal freedom. With wit to spare, cleverness sometimes beyond bearing, and effortless technique...
Died. José Humberto Sosa Molina, 67, brash, bulky (more than 200 Ibs.) Argentine army general and ex-Dictator Juan Perón's last Minister of Defense, who crushed the June 1955 anti-Perón naval revolt, failed to stop the September revolution, which swept him and his boss out of power; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Among Sosa Molina's rewards for carrying out Perón's dirty work: 265 car import licenses, each worth more than...
...Brash, hawk-nosed Challenger Tal is Botvinnik's exact opposite. A graduate of the philology department at the Latvian State University in Riga, he has made chess his profession; when he is not playing the game he is writing about "it in a Riga chess journal, which he edits. During a game, he makes his moves swiftly. Between moves, he circles endlessly around the table. Then, as though in response to an electric brain-flash, he stops in his tracks, hovers over the board, and, when his turn comes, swoops down like a hawk on the piece he intends...
...company got its start in 1874, when a brash youth named Richard Joshua Reynolds, wearing a tobacco-stained mustache that belied his 21 years, took his profits from a family tobacco business, set up his own business at Winston to sell chewing tobacco among the back-country folk. He did so well that by 1888 he was worth more than a quarter million dollars...
Wally's talent is not so much for diplomacy as organization. He demands discipline: a brash trailer owner who disputed him got left behind in Ethiopia. He also delegates the work. The head of the crucial Gas and Fuel Committee is a vigorous former banker from Texas named George Ezell, 62. Louis Mousely, who once grew apples in upstate New York, is the wagon boss who herds the trailers into frontier circle formation at night, and carries a special piece of string about as a measure to see that each is the proper distance from the other. Retired Contractor...