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...Matthews for fidgeting during the national anthem. 42. Mamie Van Doren. 43. Gil McDougal: Scores pitched for Cleveland. 44. Dave McNally. Jim Palmer. Wally Bunker. McNally; 33. innings. 45. Jerry West. Picture A. John Misha Petkavich preparing for a Jimmy Fund benefit. Picture B. Chris Papagianis: Ivy soccer scoring record for one season...
Died. Mark Van Doren, 78, educator, author and poet; in Torrington, Conn. A lean, soft-spoken scholar, Van Doren launched his career as an educator at New York City's Columbia University in 1920. Though he wrote more than 50 books of verse, fiction and literary criticism and in 1940 won a Pulitzer Prize for his spare, Frostian lyrics (Collected Poems), the classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving...
...Book was an attempt to do precisely that. In the new edition (Simon & Schuster; $8.95), Adler has added material on novels and poetry as well as syntopical reading (how to read two or more books on the same subject). The book was written in collaboration with Charles Van Doren, 46, the onetime English instructor and Quiz Whiz who came to grief in the TV scandals of 1958-59. In recent years Van Doren has been working with Adler, editing and conducting great books discussion groups...
...good poet born into a generation of geniuses. His six volumes of dry Eliotic verse won considerable honor, but they have often been roasted by the brighter young critics-or consigned to the honorable unmentioned shelf along with volumes by Leonie Adams, Stanley Kunitz, Babette Deutsch and Mark Van Doren...
...cummings. Thus: "I fell in love with a girl. / O and a gash. / I'll bet she now has seven lousy children. / (I've three myself, one being off the record.)" This section celebrates Berryman's collegiate sexuality, makes ever so clear that he was Mark van Doren's prize pupil, and refers to Eliot as "Tom" and Joyce as "Jim." Berryman, of course, is noted for this sort of thing, the seeming arrogance which some how made the Dream Songs so fetching. Here, however, it becomes almost overpowering; the poems become one long stream of cute in-jokes...