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...played Hamlet to his own ghost, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the poet from the poltergeist who tipped over the stuffed birds, broke the bric-a-brac and put the ladies into a flutter. It is the thesis of Veteran Biographer Frances Winwar (Coleridge, the Wordsworths, Byron, Shelley, Keats) that Poe's "ghoul-haunted" imagination has contemporary validity. For all its outmoded idiom (castles, princesses, etc.) Poe's death-obsessed verse speaks true today. In this admirable biography, Author Winwar lets a hundred well-informed witnesses speak for themselves and lets Poe rhyme where reason does...
...Then, says Shotwell, "everybody started congratulating everybody. We knew we had done it. It was going like a bullet; nothing could stop it." To celebrate, the Atlas contractor, Convair, launched a bubbly champagne party at the nearby Starlite Motel, and the jubilant missilemen hoisted Operations Manager B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb (TIME, Dec. 30) on their shoulders and carried him around the room...
Self-Starter. In 1910 a woman driving across Detroit's Belle Isle bridge had engine trouble. Byron Carter, maker of an auto called the Cartercar, happened by, stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...
Raffaello de Banfield: Lord Byron's Love Letter (Astrid Varnay. Gertrude Ribla, Mario Carlin. Nicoletta Carruba; Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome, conducted by Nicola Rescigno; RCA Victor). An adventurous musical reading of Tennessee Williams' curdled little tale about a New Orleans lady of reduced circumstances who supports herself and her granddaughter, illegitimately descended from Lord Byron, by displaying a love letter she received from Byron in the "gold and azure days'" of their love affair. Italian Composer Banfield's score offers some green and willowy moments of vocal beauty, but its lush-styled orchestration is finally...
Cuticle Push. For two years she was a nimble-witted reporter about Manhattan, and then came Hollywood. As for the romance with Fitzgerald, there was more tutelage than toot left in the ailing writer, and he liked to put together lists of required reading, e.g., Byron, Rabelais, the pre-Socratics. Said she: "You're pushing back the cuticle that's grown over my mind." But gin was still mother's milk to Fitzgerald whenever things went wrong, even though he recognized that "the escape was worse than the reality." These scenes of self-lacerating drunkenness...