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Midst laurels stood: Poetess Phyllis McGinley, 58, awarded Notre Dame's annual Laetare Medal, the most prestigious honor conferred on a Roman...
...about are the most notable flops. Jean Stafford's Elephi is repellingly saccharine, worse even than Lesley Frost's (the poet's daughter) Really Not Really, in which life (really) and fantasy (not really) are carefully trussed into sweet little packages. Poets Ogden Nash and Phyllis McGinley, both of whom are capable of better things, have written companion books (Girls Are Silly and Boys Are Awful) that are silly and awful...
Poet Phyllis McGinley uses 364 words in The B Book to describe a small Brown Bee named Bumble, who tires of Being a mere Bee. To find something more beautiful he can Be, he Buzzes off "as loud as a Bold Brass Band," only to discover that everything Best in the world begins with a B-Butterflies, Blackbirds, Blue Balloons and the Bicycle of a Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot...
...Powell M. Cabot Professor of American, Literature, will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree from Boston College June 11. Among the eight recipients of B. C. honoraries are Ralph J. Bunche, undersecretary for special political affairs at the U.N., actor Sir Alec Guinness, Pulitzer-prize winning post. Phyllis McGinley, and Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute...
...Fordham University (10,750 students) opened on a farm in 1841, got engulfed by the spreading city. Among other things, Fordham is noted for its 51-year-old seismic station, the Jesuit quarterly Thought, and schools of law and social service. Headed by urbane, witty Father Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., Fordham is now building a $25 million campus at Manhattan's Lincoln Center...