Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in hot water with Republicans howling for his head, controversial Stew Udall called in the press, after first carefully stationing at his side venerable Poet Robert Frost, his luncheon guest, as a sort of mute character witness. Udall angrily denied that he had meant to bludgeon money from the oil and gasmen. He admitted that he was a good friend of Evans', an official of Asiatic Petroleum Co., an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell group. But, said Udall, all that he had done was to tell Evans casually that he hoped...
Talking to Washington newsmen, grizzled Yankee Poet Robert Frost, 87, wanted to be sure they got one thing straight: "The newspapers are always comparing my hair with Carl Sandburg's. That's absurd. Carl has a hairdo...
...many householders who simply no longer care about crab grass. It is green, after all, and it chokes out the less hardy weeds; moreover, it scarcely stands out in a well-mowed lawn. These people do not even mind that crab grass turns an unsightly brown with the first frost. At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate...
Showing that the link between his Administration and poetry amounts to more than a fleeting touch of Inauguration Day showmanship, John F. Kennedy appeared on TV last week in a tribute to Poet Robert Frost. "There is a story," said the President, "that some years ago an interested mother wrote to a principal of a school. 'Don't teach my boy poetry, he's going to run for Congress.' I've never taken the view that the world of politics and the world of poetry are so far apart." Poet Frost, too, had some amiable...
...week, many novels, short stories and verse collections later, Jesse Stuart, now at 53 having left his Kentucky farm to teach for a year at the American University at Cairo, received the $5,000 award of the Academy of American Poets. Among his prestigious predecessors: E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Conrad Aiken...