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...majority of the class was determined to take revenge against Woodbury, who, by this point had very few friends or supporters. On Exhibition Day, diarist Dodge recalls the "Black's" speech being "hissed for a full five minutes. The chapel was in perfect uproar...
Unfortunately, Eisenhower was not a faithful diarist, and many presidential and personal crises went unremarked. He rarely confided his emotions, even to himself, and his writing, though workmanlike, is usually as flat as the plains of Kansas, where he grew up. When he was emotional, as on the death of his father, he could be poignant. "I'm proud he was my father," he noted. "My only regret is that it was always so difficult to let him know the great depth of my affection for him." Of his wife Mamie and his son John he said almost nothing...
...time, the Tokyo press was shrieking about "white devils," and Hollywood was churning out propaganda movies depicting Japanese as bloodthirsty primitives. But for the diarist, now 81 and living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the fact that Japanese and Americans were getting along at the camp was perfectly normal. A flinty, no-nonsense New Englander who once worked in the campaign to free Sacco and Vanzetti, Crouter viewed World War II as a tiresome family quarrel, and not a fit activity for respectable adults. Her book (Forbidden Diary, $14.95, to be published next month by Burt Franklin & Co.) is remarkable...
...indefatigable diarist, a sometime poet, novelist and Spanish dancer, a Boswellian collector of literary friends and a flamboyant promoter of her small but genuine talents. Ironically, her death two years ago at age 73 preceded by only a few months the general fame she had courted so long. The source of this attention was a cache of erotic stories she had written, for cash, in the early 1940s; her patron was an anonymous collector who told her to "leave out the poetry and descriptions of anything but sex" and paid her a dollar a page. Published posthumously under the title...
...television, Naturalist Edith Holden made almost daily entries in a diary and interspersed among them watercolor paintings of the birds, flowers and grasses she saw on her walks. The result, never before published, was a delicately assembled chronicle of a year in the Midlands that included the diarist's favorite poems and aphorisms. It is published here in a fine facsimile edition that pleases the mind...