Word: doren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren, professor emeritus of Columbia University, will be visiting professor hero for the spring term...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American poetry in 1940 for his "Collected Poems," Van Doren will conduct English Sb, an advanced course in creative writing formerly given by Archibald MacLeish, professor emeritus. He will also give a Humanities course in "The Narrative Art," which will consider three or four major narratives such as the Odyssey and Don Quixote...
...arraignments for the trial of ten erstwhile quiz masters were conducted in a Manhattan court. The great Hank Bloomgarden ($98,500) was there, and crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, whose $220,500 winnings were the highest of all. But every eye in court was on Charles Lincoln Van Doren, bearer of one of the great names in American letters...
...Doren pleaded guilty like all the others, and like all the others he was given a suspended sentence (he might have had to spend up to three years in jail). Flashbulbs popped in his face once more, and he retreated to his $50,000 house on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, where he can throw open his French doors and walk in the small world of a semiprivate garden. "Charlie doesn't come out very much," says a neighbor...
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The show visits Actress Mamie van Doren at her home in Hollywood, French Hairdresser Antoine at his apartment in Paris...