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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...
...midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader is to get across that bridge, he has to do it by himself...
...been passing through Attleboro with his car radio on, listening, of course, to Stop the Music. When he heard the address, he headed for the house. He was Johnny-on-the-spot, the first of an intolerable army of mercenaries. I didn't make up the insuranceman episode. That, too, happened to the Eastons...
...West Virginia, where the United Mine Workers refrained from taking sides, Democrats renominated New Dealish Harley M. Kilgore for U.S. Senator. Republicans picked Insuranceman Thomas B. Sweeney to oppose him a second time...