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Without laboring analogies Poet Frost yet manages to convey in his homespun terms a philosophy that has both personal and political implications...
...then the journalists. One family came with an expectant mother, because they knew Dr. Ritter would be able to help her confinement. Most of the "settlers" were only visitors, but one fine day, when Dore and Dr. Ritter had been three years on Floreana. Satan herself arrived in their homespun Eden. She came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them all by the ears. She and Dore hated each other at sight, while Dr. Ritter held philosophically...
...When homespun Kentucky Poet Jesse Stuart sat down and wrote a big stack of "sonnets ' (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow -TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), a few critics sat up, called him a modern Bobbie Burns. Others just laughed at his unconscious, bull-tongued humor. Last week Poet Stuart made the scoffers scratch their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times...
Bret Harte might have written the story of Evalyn McLean. This tale of a prospector's daughter whose father struck it rich would have been just his ticket. But he would have fictionalized it, added some homespun sentiment; and he would have stopped the narrative before it became too true to be funny. Evalyn Walsh McLean tells her own story (with the ghostly aid of Boyden Sparkes) with no regard for her readers' feelings. She simply sets down the blatant facts, and though the facts are increasingly adorned with pearls and bristling with diamonds, she never succeeds...
...syndicate work, Rhymester Guest has for the past four years boarded a sleeper every Monday night, awakened in Chicago next morning to broadcast verse and chit-chat for Household Finance Corp. Last October he, his wife and daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while the company tried to whip together a story suitable to it and him. Meantime, Universal was not only Daying Guest's salary but $1,200 a week toll charges so that he could broadcast from his Chicago outlet. "My parents always told...