Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he took up poetry in earnest--he dabbled at it in school--Mr. Kennedy was interested in education and theology. After teaching for fifteen years, he studied at a theological school in Pittsburgh, received an M.A. from Columbia Teachers College, and an Ed.M., in 1923, from the Harvard School of Education. Then he found his interest in poetry. At present, he still has a wealth of ideas, and finds time to write constantly, even when he is on the job carrying stacks of menus from the printing company which employs him to such places as the Commander, the Continental...
According to TIME [Sept. 29], Editor Ed Leech ordered Li'l Abner dropped from the Pittsburgh Press because . . . "we don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of crooks . . . and undesirables. In addition the continuity contained a double-meaning statement so obvious that we considered it vulgar...
Even an invitation to exhibit in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Annual is considered an accolade; its first prize is the top U.S. painting honor. For this year's show, most of the 300 chosen U.S. artists were out of art's second drawer, but they were the best available these days. Visitors who plodded through the exhibition on opening day last week agreed that the paintings had nothing in common except craftsmanship-and perhaps mediocrity...
...Billy Meyer, whose Kansas City team finished first in the American Association, succeeded Billy Herman as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...Michigan emerged from last week's scrimmaging soundest in wind & limb. In fact, it looked as if Coach Fritz Crisler's men could get a better battle by playing their own second team than they could from anyone they had faced so far. The Michiganders embarrassed poor Pittsburgh, 69 to 0. In its first three games, Michigan has scored 173 points to 13 for its opponents...