Word: insuranceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian ministry do the same? For Indiana's Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines, the question had a special significance: the Methodist Church needs 1,200 new ministers a year, but it is currently getting only about 650. To help him do something about it, a hard-driving Indianapolis insuranceman named Edward F. Gallahue borrowed an idea or two from business salesmanship...
...each working day Wallace Stevens sits at a big, uncluttered desk in a comfortable office with a thick russet carpet. As vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., he spends his business hours dealing with fidelity and surety claims. Nobody would take 70-year-old Insuranceman Stevens for a poet, let alone the hard-to-read kind. But, after hours, Stevens is just that...
Recalling the event last week, Manhattan Insuranceman Reed Chambers, another immortal of the 94th, said: "By then [the squadron] had begun to love him. I don't know how to explain it. [At first] he was just an uneducated, tough bastard who threw his weight around the wrong way . . . But he developed into the most natural leader I ever...
...magazine in 1914 for four of his earliest verses (Phases). Like London Publisher T. S. Eliot, he has never regarded poetry as a full-time job. To have daily contact with other work, he says, "gives a man character as, a poet." Promptly at 8:15 every weekday morning, Insuranceman Stevens strides into his Hartford office. Often he hands his secretary a crumpled bit of paper bearing a specimen of his minuscule handwriting-his poem for the day. Sample (in which he uses a blue guitar as a symbol of the poet's transforming...