Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Australian Army Lieut. James MacAuley (who fought in New Guinea) and Corporal Harold Stewart revealed that they were "Ern Malley." Forced to kill an afternoon's leave, they created Poet Malley by leafing through The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and other inspirational works, and lifting whatever hit their fancy. Samples of Malley masterpieces...
...Hoaxers MacAuley and Stewart confessed that they culled the first three lines of Culture as Exhibit from a U.S. report on mosquito breeding grounds...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...
Buzzed Surrealist Editor Harris: "If fifty million monkeys with fifty million typewriters tapped for fifty million years, one of them would produce a Shakespeare sonnet. I hope MacAuley and Stewart have not produced such a phenomenon. It is not their claims of exposure but time [that] tells the story. Time will explain that a myth is sometimes greater than its creators...
...Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) is a 14-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, "the fastest-moving thing in San Joaquin valley." He supports his fatherless family, runs the 220 low hurdles in school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short...