Word: friendlys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ellsworth (Maine) American is owned by former U.N. Ambassador and Washington Post Editor James R. Wiggins, and it served him as a modest vehicle for a birthday tribute to an old friend, neighbor and fellow journalist. A 58-line poem in the American carried Wiggins' byline and the following dedication: "To E. B. ('Andy') White of North Brooklin, on His Seventieth Birthday, July 11, 1969." The couplets fondly recall such White pieces as One Man's Meat and Second Tree from the Corner, then conclude with these lines...
...Francisco Designer C. Prior Hall arrived with the water-filled mattress. He calls it the Pleasure Pit, and passed out copy advertising its virtues: "It is a friend in love with you. Beckoning you to grovel in rapturous sensual splendor" -and so on, down to the punch line: "The Pleasure Pit is like taking your bed to bed with...
...Woody asked his friend the late great Lucien Price to address the Glee Club's annual banquet, Mentioning some powerful music, Price added, in that war year, "Although this world may be no great shakes, the future problematical, and no telling what may become of us, one thing is certain--so long as there is such music in the world, there is always that the world can do to us." Woody's career. right through our war-riven 1960's , was testimony to that view of music's potency...
...sharp opposites, Pierce and Ben naturally attract each other. They become roommates, try out together for the News, join the same club (Fence). But like so many good friends they are also bad friends, out to destroy as much as to enhance each other. Ben secretly ruins Pierce's chance to become chairman of the News. Pierce makes clandestine love to Ben's virginal girl friend...
...North. In the North the hippies are just normal people like you and me who hold jobs or go to school and just happen to be transcendent in their private lives. There are only about 300 hippies in Atlanta estimates this editor of The Great Speckled Bird friend of ours. The only job any of these people can get is to sell The Great Speckled Bird. They sell 15,000 copies of it every week, which goes to show how many latent hippies there are in Atlanta. They have to make great sacrifices to be what they are. They sleep...