Word: crockett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name, came into being in this generation for a radio public, but under various names he has been alive for many centuries. He was Ulysses, William Tell and Robin Hood; he was Richard the Lionhearted, the Black Prince and Du Guesclin; he was Kit Carson, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett; he was honest, truthful and brave-and so he remains...
...basis of skill and facility alone, I can also praise John Crockett's "1929--There Is a Clock That Always Strikes." This, however, is a cloyingly wistful memory of an age that has passed, an album of Daguerreotypes of "orange blossoms" and "milkweed gloves," that reaches its supreme moment of pathos with: "The hope chest drawers are empty now." It would be naive and thoroughly undesirable to expect the Advocate to become a magazine of "social significance," and yet it is completely reasonable to expect some focussing, some more intense realization of implications in a poem of this sort...
...this is what has been undertaken by the editors of Trend, the University of Chicago's latest publication. As a mouthpiece for all of America's "up and coming" writers, Trend will publish works of students from all universities (the first issue contains a poem by Harvard's John Crockett) alongside of contributions from nationally known literary figures. The editors wish to bring together all the writers "who are trying to do new and vigorous things in verse and prose" and, simultaneously, to publish criticism on all the arts which will attempt to examine and evaluate the contemporary pattern. Trend...
Richard Barrows '43, Howard C. Bennett Jr., Charles S. Borden '43, Arthur V. Cambell 3rd '44, Thomas J. Crockett 3rd '43, Bruce B. Phenister '44, Charles B. Strauss '44, Gurden W. Watties '42 to Literary Board...
Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...