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...mission is to write a thousand pieces-I call them pieces because I don't like the word poems. So far, I've done seven hundred.") This summer's work netted posterity 30 new pieces to be published next fall. Sample, from Lobster for Lunch...
...face was like a lobster...
With elephantine grace, Egypt's corpulent King Farouk waddled through another week of festivities at the French seaside resort of Deauville. He played baccarat, attended the races, acted as judge of a bathing beauty contest, downed quantities of frogs' legs and lobster, received two Egyptian Channel swimmers (see SPORT), and smilingly suffered a Parisian nightclub songstress to clip off his black tie when he would not rise and follow her to the dance floor. Across the Channel, the British press cocked a scornful eye at the goings-on. "Never," sniffed the London Daily Mirror, "have modesty and anonymity...
...Wood and Managing Editor B. 0. McAnney, he'waved vaguely: "Well, so long." Then Easton, who is chairman of the W-T & S Guild unit, walked out, followed by ten other Guildsmen on the slim lobster shift. By the time they left the building, a picket line of 150 was already forming. Easton picked up a sign and joined the line. The strike was the Guild's first against a New York City newspaper since the Brooklyn Eagle strike...
From Paris, word leaked out that onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, 35, was working on a new play called The Unthinking Lobster. It would be a take-off on movie people with all the characters easily recognizable, according to Variety, and "likely not to endear Welles with Hollywood...