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...plopped down 35 cents of my hard-begged weekly stipend And bought "The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash," for its was worth all that money To possess a collection of Nash's best poems, or at least those that the editor Louis Untermeyer thought were funny. Thus began the Nashomania Of a 10-year-old at 6910 Heyward Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While other kids sat soldered to a TV set that pummeled them with Ovaltine commercials and hair-dye ads, I curled up with Nash's couplets, quatrains, limericks and occasional jeremiads. While other boys wore their Captain Video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Ode to Ogden | 8/22/2002 | See Source »

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