Word: nathalia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BEFORE THE BRAVE-Kenneth Patchen -Random House ($2). SWEAR BY THE NIGHT-Nathalia Crane -Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered...
...children, and one night Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. gave a party for them. A onetime prodigy who had used a typewriter at 3, written a poem and made a public speech at 4, Miss Stoner invited such characters as William James Sidis, who at n set Harvard agog, and Nathalia Crane, who at 9 published poems. The party's chief exhibit was Ellen Elizabeth Benson, the plump young daughter of a Texas newspaper couple. When she was 8, Ellen Elizabeth Benson's mind had been rated as equal to that of a "superior adult." Six months later her elders found...
Birthdays. Gifford Pinchot, 68; Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 62; Herbert Hoover, 59; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 56; Nathalia Clara Ruth Abarbannel Crane...
Birthdays. Julius Rosenwald (69); Amos Alonzo Stagg (69) ; Gifford Pinchot (66); Mary Roberts Rinehart (55); Nathalia Crane...
Birthday. Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn, who at 10 gained fame with her book of poems The Janitor's Boy. Age: 17. Date: Aug. 11. Celebration: Telling about her new poem Pocahontas, in which eight modern poets chase the Communists from the U. S., make Pocahontas queen...