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...52nd anniversary dinner of the Poetry Society of America, Honorary President Robert Frost, 87, was served up a bronze bust of himself done by Economist and Sunday Sculptor Leo Cherne (mused Frost: "It doesn't have to look like me; if it's a good bust, it's all right"). Then came the airy dessert: a morsel whipped up by Shelley Award Winner Theodore Roethke. A poetaste...
...GEORGE FROST KENNAN, 57, Pulitzer-prize winning Kremlinologist (Russia Leaves the War), onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952), top cold war strategist who shaped the U.S. containment policy and the Marshall Plan. In a sharp policy disagreement with John Foster Dulles, he was shunted aside in 1953 after 25 years in the Foreign Service. He became a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, now is back in diplomacy as Ambassador to Yugoslavia, one of the cold war's key vantage points...
...have lived before and been a Russian," Kennan began his present incarnation in Milwaukee. Son of a tax attorney, he was inspired to join the Foreign Service by his cousin, George Kennan, a 19th century traveler, lecturer and writer who became the leading U.S. authority on Czarist Russia. * George Frost Kennan's intense intellectual and often emotional conflict with Communist Russia produced two famous concepts: containment and disengagement...
...Destiny. Such was Kennedy's performance during the inauguration ceremonies that the late Sam Rayburn was moved to remark: "He's a man of destiny." Poet Robert Frost, then 86, obviously thought so, too, and his proud reading of one of his poems at the inaugural set a tone of expectation. After a few weeks in the Presidency, Kennedy told a friend: "This is a damned good job." He was fascinated by the perquisites of his office and his sudden access to the deepest secrets of government. He explored the White House, poked his head into offices, asked...
...columns, poetry and memorabilia. But there are some nuggets in this worked-over lode. Item: Sandburg was briefly considered by important Republicans as a dark-horse Republican candidate for the presidency in 1940 (Willkie was nominated, and the relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg's most widely quoted statements was put in his mouth by an imaginative Moline, Ill., newspaperwoman, who asked him, "Would you say that slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes...