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...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
...Montreal's McGill University elected Beryl Dickinson-Dash, a Negro, its winter carnival queen...
...District of Columbia bar admitted 350 new lawyers, including Frederick Moore Vinson, 26, son of the Supreme Court Chief Justice. The fledgling lawyers ot a welcome from District Court Judge Dickinson Letts, who had a note of cynicism for those who aspired to the bench. In these days of high taxes, he said, "it takes a peculiar damn fool to be a judge. The pay is like the old gray mare-t ain't what it used...
...college presidents had not forgotten each other. Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University, St. Louis, got an LL.D. from Baylor University in Texas, and Harold Stassen of the University of Pennsylvania got one from Dickinson College, Pa. Wake Forest College, N.C. honored two traditional football rivals: the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray and Duke University's President Arthur Hollis Edens...
...Webb; 2, Ken Keniston; 3, Cal Dickinson; 4, Jim Slocum; 5, Ted Anderson; 6, Buffy Bohien; 7, Frank Peale; stroke, Art Rouner