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BECAUSE I WAS FLESH by Edward Dahlberg. 234 pages. New Directions...
...unknown writer named Edward Dahlberg had the rare distinction of shocking D. H. Lawrence. After reading Dahlberg's defiantly proletarian first novel, Bottom Dogs, Lawrence predicted that its author's "next step is legal insanity." Instead, Dahlberg, now 63, became a poet, essayist, and shrewd, contentious critic who once said that he blamed T. S. Eliot "for nothing except the books that he has written." He calls Because I Was Flesh "an auto biography of my faults." It is the story of his first 46 years and of Lizzie, his mother, a Kansas City lady barber "with dyed...
...Previous presidents: Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Methodist Bishop William C. Martin, Presbyterian Minister Eugene Carson Blake, Baptist Minister Edwin T. Dahlberg...
...Southport, Conn. (New York); Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, Devon (Philadelphia); Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson, Greenwich, Conn. (New York); Artist Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford (Philadelphia); Westinghouse Electric Corp. Chairman Gwilym Price, Carnegie (Pittsburgh); United Steelworkers President David McDonald, Mt. Lebanon (Pittsburgh); National Council of Churches President Edwin Dahlberg, University City (St. Louis); Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, Mill Valley (San Francisco); Boeing Airplane Co. President William Allen, The Highlands (Seattle); Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black, Alexandria (Washington...
...satisfactions are unique and abundant. A minister's wife has a whole congregation to love and call hers. And she's also blessed with the services of the best doctors, dentists, and other professional men in the community-and often free of charge." Says Mrs. Edwin T. Dahlberg, married (for 41 years) to the president of the National Council of Churches: "When you go to a new town, everybody is there to welcome you. You have people's confidence...