Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday afternoon, a few hours before TIME'S April 3 issue went to bed, Researcher Marjorie Burns put in a fast phone call for Ed Heinke, our Indianapolis string correspondent. She told him that a story in Education referred to a poem by James Whitcomb Riley entitled Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., TYTY. What, asked Researcher Burns, did the T-Y-T-Y stand for? Could Heinke find out? Possibly somebody at DePauw University, where Lecturer Ridpath lived and worked before his death in 1900, would know...
...wife but why didn't my paper [the Indianapolis Times, of which Heinke is assistant managing editor] get going on a crusade about taxes? He talked to me for ten minutes. Mrs. Miesse looked through her index books and announced that she couldn't even find the poem in question. She wondered whether the poet had even written it. Anyhow, she had no idea what T-Y-T-Y meant...
...Thayer, who turned out to be living about a mile north of me on my own street, couldn't help me, but when I got Mrs. Cook on the line and explained my predicament she said: 'Sure, I remember the poem. I've got the original manuscript right here...
...have daily contact with other work, he says, "gives a man character as, a poet." Promptly at 8:15 every weekday morning, Insuranceman Stevens strides into his Hartford office. Often he hands his secretary a crumpled bit of paper bearing a specimen of his minuscule handwriting-his poem for the day. Sample (in which he uses a blue guitar as a symbol of the poet's transforming...
Peterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME...