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...Klondike saloon. The rhymes that made Service a millionaire w'ooed none of the nine Muses. They reek of male shenanigans and sweat, roar like a Yukon avalanche, teem with rude and lusty characters: Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins. Muck-Luck Mag, Blasphemous Bill Mackie. Dangerous Dan McGrew. "Rhyming has my ruin been," Robert Service once wrote, falling unconsciously into the balladeer's inversion. "With less deftness I might have produced real poetry...
Dangerous Dan. Lady Luck, who smiled on so many fortune seekers in the Yukon gold fields, smiled there too on Wullie Service. Behind his bank teller's cage one frozen night in White Horse, he knocked out a raw, rollicking ballad called The Shooting of Dan McGrew, modestly tucked it away in his shirt drawer, months later, in 1907, sent it to a Toronto publisher of church hymnals with a slender assortment of other sourdough rhymes. The story goes that the typesetters swung into a dance as they locked it in the forms...
...lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew...
...fallen short of his goal of 1,000 poems. But he had left behind him an ineffaceable imprint of his adventurer's appetite for the wild far places and the wild far things, in imperishable rhymed memorials to Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins and Dangerous Dan McGrew...
...Hall and Jamaica Plain, Mass., Walter H. Caulfield, Jr. of Dunster House and East Stroudsberg, Pa., David W. Terris of Eliot House and Grosse Point, Mich., Harry L. Griffin, Jr. of Kirkland House and Charlotte, N.C., Harry J. Wexler of Lowell House and New Haven, Conn., and Willard G. McGrew, Jr., of Winthrop House and Gaithersbury, Md. Leverett House extended its election through today's noon meal owing to an exceptionally light vote last night...