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...some circles. Last week Geer, along with ex-Wife Herta Ware and Protégé Michael Wilson, trouped through Chicago retirement hotels with a program of poetry and song. "We do little pieces of authors that these old girls might remember," said Geer of his readings from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. The white-haired women in his audiences seemed appreciative, but they were still a surprise to the actor. "People talk out loud just as they do when they're watching television in the parlor," said Geer. "Last night a lady grabbed me by the waist...
...impressive, but most of the players agreed that the course played easy yesterday. Yellin said, "The conditions were nearly ideal. It was a little chilly in the morning, though." A little chilly is an understatement. The tournament had to be delayed 15 minutes while the players waited for the frost to melt off the greens...
...What kind of age did Robert Frost say the Kennedy mauguration heralded...
...chosen, his appointment lasts one year and he must give six lectures "not previously printed or delivered in public." The lecturer must turn over his manuscript to Harvard for publication, usually by Harvard University Press. But in the past, not all the lecturers have handed in their manuscripts. Robert Frost's manuscript for his 1936 Norton lectures. "The Renewal of Words," can't be found in the Harvard archives, and apparently he never turned one in, probably because most of his lectures were extemporaneous in his second lecture he dispelled rumors that he had left Harvard (he attended...
Altogether, five manuscripts weren't collected or printed, including Thorn ton Wilder's lecturers for 1950-51. "The American Literature." Unlike the gregarious Frost, Wilder was supposed to have prepared his lectures very carefully. But despite the large amount of time he put into them, the novelist/playwright was reluctant to publish a critical work...