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Died. Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock...
Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay was found dead at her home in Austerlitz, N.Y. yesterday...
...Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing...
...entry into World War I, the Masses reappeared in 1918 as the Liberator. In 1926 it became New Masses, pledged to avoid "political affiliations or propaganda obligations." As late as 1936 it could get, for little or no money, such writers as Dreiser and Dos Passes, such poets as Millay and William Rose Benet, such artists as Gropper and Groth...
...life story of Edna St. Vincent Millay," reported Gossip Columnist Danton Walker, "may be a new biographical film." A few days before, Walker had reported: "Alice B. Toklas . . . [is] returning here from Paris to buy a home in Oakland, Calif." But Columnist Walker (one of two newspapermen to make the Man of Distinction whiskey ads) was having a spell of undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention...