Word: lode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SANDBURG, by Harry Golden (287 pp.; World; $5). Harry (Only in America) Golden has put together an undefinitive biography of his old friend the poet out of snips and snatches from Sandburg's autobiography, newspaper columns, poetry and memorabilia. But there are some nuggets in this worked-over lode. Item: Sandburg was briefly considered by important Republicans as a dark-horse Republican candidate for the presidency in 1940 (Willkie was nominated, and the relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg...
Except for the fact that it boasts one saloon for every 34 residents. Virginia City, Nev., a town of 515 atop the exhausted Comstock Lode, always seemed a wildly improbable place for so determined a dandy as Lucius Beebe. But settle there Beebe did, when he bought a long-defunct weekly, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952 and resurrected it with an editorial policy of "benevolent backwardness" and "low moral tone, high alcoholic content." Recently, the onetime diarist of New York society, jaded at 58, has been edging away from Virginia City's sagebrush and saloons. Last week his unlikely...
...Bridge Builder John A. Roebling. Mumford's fresh eye saw in the heavy, Romanesque masonry works of 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (Boston's Trinity Church), the work of "our first truly indigenous master-builder." With The Brown Decades (1865-1895), Mumford mined another overlooked lode, set in perspective Chicago Skyscraper Poet Louis Sullivan and his great pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright...
...expected, Russia easily defeated the U.S. for the unofficial team title by mining a lode of gold medals in such sports as women's gymnastics (5) and women's track (6). Unexpectedly, the proud U.S. men's track team won only nine gold medals (v. 15 in the 1956 Olympics), set chauvinistic officials to charging that the best event of American athletes was the marathon of wine, women and song. Lost in the furor was the obvious fact that the U.S. still easily dominated men's track (runner-up Russia had five gold medals...
...retreat," says Krock. "I merely withdrew to a previously prepared position." In that position he turns out his editorial-page column four times a week, and he does it in precisely his own way, drawing on a background of nearly four decades of political reporting and tapping a lode of sources equaled by few in U.S. journalism...