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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That is the way Poet Robert Lee Frost, sitting in the new Ralph Waldo Emerson Chair of Poetry,* talked to some 40 reverently attentive students at Harvard University last week. No newcomer to Harvard or to teaching, Robert Frost was successively English Professor at Amherst, and Poet in Residence at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frosty Beer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Never a formal man, Robert Frost is at his most informal on the Thursday nights when he slouches crosslegged, drawling away for a couple of hours in the shadowy, comfortable Upper Common Room at Harvard's Adams House. A master poet, he takes a poet's license in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frosty Beer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

* Named at his request for his favorite poet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frosty Beer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

America is usually wide awake and tuned in 12,000,000-strong Tuesday nights when Announcer Milton Cross trumpets this familiar radio reveille. For Information Please, the quiz program that plays experts for fall guys, has been capital, dependable, adult radio fun for a year and a half, since last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

-John Kieran, omniscient sports columnist for the New York Times; grumpish F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams), old-school New York Post columnist "who can't remember a thing that's happened in the last ten years, but remembers everything before that"; glib Oscar Levant, composer, super-pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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