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Englishman Auden, however, does not allow such a lump of purely democratic emotion to stick in his throat for long. He clears it out with an elaborate, witty, rhymed, five-part letter to hyper-aristocratic English Poet Lord Byron. In this sophisticated, not entirely mock-serious composition, Poet Auden confides his thoughts about English literature in general, about his own life and times in particular, points a pretty straight finger at the hot spot on which up-to-the-minute literates fry perforce. His view of his fellow poets is neither encouraging nor hopeless : . . . many are in tears...
Rocky Mountain Conference. Not since 1924 has the University of Colorado been undisputed champion of its conference, but last week when undefeated Colorado lined up against the University of Denver no one doubted that it would be so this year. Led by a young quarterback, Byron ("Whizzer") White, who like his brother Sam two years ago is not only a great player but an honor student, president of the student council and leading candidate for a Rhodes scholarship, Colorado had romped over all its opponents. The question was whether Whizzer White would regain from Sid White (no relation) of Brooklyn...
...household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots of the Revolutionary War, many forgotten minor poets. Cutting down these, reducing the quotations from Byron and Wordsworth, Editors Morley and Everett have brought in moderns from Archibald MacLeish to William Butler Yeats. Shakespeare still leads with 77 of the 1,126 pages of quotations, the Bible is second with 32 pages...
Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...
Back on a newspaper, his boss, an enthusiast named Byron Cole, sold him on the idea of taking over Nicaragua. A fat prize, it turned out to be too fat-Walker had to meet competition from the feasting eyes of England, Spain, the U. S., the more glittering eye of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having...