Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandfather's cut-down suit. He worked in the mills, nailed shoes, helped farmers. He began to read Latin and Greek avidly, wrote his first poem (in blank verse, about Cortes in Mexico), played on the football team and tied for class honors with a girl named Elinor Miriam White...
...While Elinor went to college, young Robert restlessly tried Dartmouth for a couple of months ("A great fellow for poking fun," a classmate remembers), went back home, tried editing a weekly and wrote a column in the Lawrence Sun-American. He sold his first poem (My Butterfly) to the Independent, and a check for $20 arrived from New York along with a lady editor eager to take him back for lionizing. He refused to go. He was only 20, but even then he had learned when to stand people...
Other judges announced last spring are the groups' sponsor William Van Lennep, chairman; Elinor Hughes, Boston Herald dramatic critic; Mary Martin; and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
Died. William Rose Benét, 64, Pulitzer Prize poet (The Dust Which Is God), brother of the late Stephen Vincent (John Brown's Body) Benét, husband (1923-28) of the late poet Elinor Wylie; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Moody William Benét, editor of the recent Reader's Encyclopedia of world literature and arts, once defined a poet as simply "a man who takes his craft seriously...
Judges for the contest are Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Elinor Hughes, drama critic for the Boston Herald; William Van Lonnep, curator of the Theatre Collection, Houghton Library; and two others, to be announced...