Word: meagher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior year at Brooklyn College, Alfred met James Meagher, a poet who was a great inspiration to his writing. "In 1941, he sold a piano and started a magazine, The American Poet--with the grandiose idea that he could take any mass of writers and get one good poem, from children' jumping-rope rhymes to cerebral stuff. We got five hundred a week and only three of us to edit them . . . We had a sense that something great was going to happen, week after week, expecting a volley of applause . . . nothing would happen...
...mathematical feats much faster than it can report them. In two seconds, for instance, it can calculate the cubes of all numbers from i through 2,000, but it takes an hour and a quarter to write down the answers on an electrically operated typewriter. Professor Ralph E. Meagher and his staff hope to make the typewriter run five times as fast. Even so, ORDVAC will not be able to express itself freely...