Word: byronical
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Several players are trying to land pitching positions, but the leading contenders already appear to be veterans Byron Johnson and Gerry Emmet, and last year's freshman standouts Wally Cook and Al Martin...
...Harvard Hillel Society, which sponsored the convention, also elected officers last week. William M. Wexler '60, president; Byron A. Klorfine '62, vice-president; and John B. Jones '62, secretary-treasurer, will be installed in two weeks...
Summoning up remembrance of gay things past, officials of the mellow (founded in 1768) London publishing firm of John Murray, Ltd., unlocked for a TIME reporter a keepsake secured from a best-selling client of long ago, the amorous, glamorous 19th century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Inside a musty tin box were dozens of tiny parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which...
...that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth in 1812. Betjeman's 279-page volume was selling at the rate of about 1,000 copies a day, a turnover few bestselling novelists achieve...
Chained Lion. Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped. In his defiance of society, Byron had the backing of Newstead Abbey and of a hard, aristocratic realism. Poe fought blind. The search for identity was complicated in Poe's case by multiple miscasting. The gentleman, the lover, the adventurer, all cut absurd figures behind the back of Poe the poet. His sense of vocation as poet and fabulist never deserted him. It did not fail him even when Allan had him measuring yard-goods in the store, when he "ran away...