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...London, saying: "BLAST years 1837 to 1900; curse abysmal inexcusable middle class . . . BLAST their weeping whiskers. . . ." This tone continued for 30-odd years to reverberate at one extreme of the little magazine gamut. But the violence was also disciplined, in its way. In the U.S. it found one outlet in a literary war for imagism, a simple doctrine requiring poetry to be exact rather than mushy. The new little magazine Poetry, founded in 1912, fought to make verse exact as well as free. Vachel Lindsay, T. S. Eliot and others were published first in Poetry. When Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell...
...Flying offers an outlet for hostility which [some flyers] are afraid to express otherwise. Many fighter pilots . . . not too enthusiastic about aerial combat derive great . . . satisfaction from strafing ... an uninhibited outlet for their hostilities without too great a chance for retribution...
...Work. Already 50 workmen had been hired to repair outlet valves on the 684-ft.-wide dam, patch up the ancient bunkhouses, put the powerhouse in operation, recap and creosote the dock pilings. Topflight Swedish engineers had been asked for estimates on electric furnaces and other key installations. To get things ready, between $500,000 and $1,000,000 would be spent...
...this week came a bargain-hunting man, 41-year-old Hyman Philip Kuchai, president of the 45-store western chain of Grayson Shops, Inc. (of California).* He was looking for a bargain: S. Klein On The Square, Inc., for $3,000,000. Grayson would thus acquire 1) its first outlet in the East, 2) one of the country's most unusual stores...
Youth for Christ rallies began in New York in 1940 under the two-fisted leadership of a handsome young ex-insurance salesman, Jack Wyrtzen, whose zest for life had previously found its outlet in playing the trombone for a cavalry band. It mushroomed in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units...