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...fact that he is the greatest writer of the age. Now he seems the beginner of a revolution. Seen in the light of history he may appear as the final product of one age rather than the initiator of another. We cannot predict, but we can always quote Byron...
...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...
...Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...
...Byron, of course, received an inordinate amount of praise. That Goethe placed him among English poets second only to Shakspere has always seemed to poste rity a critical aberration. Euphorian, in the second "Faust," is supposed to represent Byron; and what could be higher tribute? But in Byron, it seemed to Goethe, classicism and romanticism has been fused...
...Earnest Hemingway: An American Byron"--thus does Clifton Fadiman title his latest article for the Nation. As he proceeds to support, the thesis implied in the title, his readers are introduced to a fairly new, and very interesting estimate of themselves. Due to the peculiar way in which he symbolizes the present generation, states Mr. Fadiman, there has sprung up about Homingway "a real contemporary here myth." The similarity between Byron and Hemingway, says the author, lies in the fact that they were both post-war men, and that "in the heart of both lies a tragic sense of defeat...