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WALT WHITMAN'S POSE-Esther Shephard-Earcourt, Brace...
Last week Mrs. Esther Shephard (Paul Bunyan) advanced a new theory to account for Whitman's change. She says that he read George Sand's The Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction...
Taking the consistently serious stand that women take jury service more to heart than men, Miss Esther Gordon introduced the affirmative arguments. "But jury duty is such a trial," answered the first Crimson speaker, Robert W. Bean '39, and he didn't see why women wanted jury duty...
Divorced, Aidan Roark, 36, Irish-born international poloist (rating: 8 goals), Twentieth Century-Fox scenario executive; by Esther Foss Moore Roark, 32, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Los Angeles. Grounds: rudeness. Mrs. Roark testified that once, driving with her from Carmel to Los Angeles in wind & rain, he insisted on keeping the car's top down...
...Still drawing Government pensions from the War of 1812 are Mrs. Caroline King, 88, East Aurora, N. Y. widow, and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 80, of Independence, Ore. who was. pensioned as a helpless child because of blindness...