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...adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...
When British Garage Owner Arthur Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley...
Hale and a friend, Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, went to Norwalk, Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
...committee are: Dalton J. Avery of Stoughton and Taunton, Mass.; Jack Bagdade of Wigglesworth and Detroit; James E. Buck of Straus and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Nicholas J. Demerath of Wigglesworth and Chapel Hill N.C.; George A. Haslotis of Hollis and Boston; Michael A. Kornfield of Grays and Hempstead, N.Y.; Alan Leavitt of Hollis and Hanover, Penn.; James H. Manshan of Weld and Madelia. Minn.; Gregory B. Stone of Grays and Boise, Idaho; and David M. Ziegenhagen of Hollis and Minneapolis...
...depression of 1835-36 drove the Whitmans out to Hempstead, Long Island, and Walt took a country teaching post. The hours were hard, the pay small ($35 to $40 for a three-month term). Grown to a husky six-footer, Whitman showed no interest in girls, but he did get so chummy with the son of the farmer with whom he boarded that he was chided for it. This was the first of many close male friendships that have led later critics of Whitman to regard him as at least a crypto-homosexual...