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Richard Eberhart best defined his approach as a poet when he said in his poem The Groundhog...
Eustace is an astigmatic groundhog who, having misread his calendar, staggered through the door of the Crime last night a dey ahead of schedule. Hopping to a typewriter, he borrowed a pair of spectacles and began to pound away madly, leaving the following advice for Monday-Wednesday-Friday classgoers...
...cheerful spring term begins paradoxically today--Groundhog Day--with the freezing of the month's first slush and the prospect of signing cards continuously for five minutes...
...Registration at Memorial Hall may be less romantic than skiing, but at least the march will end with multicolored forms and not the overly-familiar bluebooks. It is even rumored that the delay of the snowfall until after the last exam has a mystical significance. Vermont's official groundhog watcher, for example, reports that yesterday's belated winter assures a fair spring...
...newspapers screamed the details of Manhattan's great $114,800 jewel robbery (see Crime). Reporters overreached themselves to get something funny out of groundhog day. In New Haven, Conn., a "beautiful blonde divorcee" was sued for $25,000 worth of alienated affections. Politics spun their plots and counterplots and moved toward the inevitable day of decision. The stock market "ended the week on a firmer note." Even the latest crisis in Europe-serious as it was-had the ring of old cut glass: Germany and France were feuding about the Saar basin...