Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blitz Calls." In those days Handy Andy was at the top and he always worked at the top. At one time or another he had turned his persuasive efforts on Secretary of War Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began...
MOREAU DE ST. MÉRY'S AMERICAN JOURNEY, 1793-1798 (394 pp.)-Translated and edited by Kenneth Roberts and Anna M. Roberts-Doubleday...
Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...Kenneth Koch's verse, as he himself describes it, struts "on a pilgrimage of music." Exhibiting a lively manipulation of language, Koch, however, sometimes plays vaguely with ideas that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...
Backing for Henry. For once, Kaiser's plan had the backing of the West's industrialists, represented by the Steel Committee of the Western States Council which lias long blamed him for driving up wage scales with his high, wide & handsome bidding for wartime labor. Chairman Kenneth T. Norris, president of Los Angeles' Norris Stamping Co. and director of the Chamber of Commerce, and other steel-committee members like cheaper steel more than they dislike Kaiser. If Kaiser would promise to "substantially reduce" Fontana's prices, they would back him. Kaiser...