Word: formative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, but the common denominators of American living, about which he knows plenty. A fourth-generation Chicagoan, Hoyne has followed the ropes as sports editor, financial editor, city editor, showman, broker, lawyer, Kentucky colonel. On Pilgrimage, his crudely but aptly illustrated book of verses, is as amateurish in its format and some of its contents as a home-made dog house. Within it lives a spirit that has dignified the human race since Aesop and before: the spirit that says out what everybody knows is true for keeps...