Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistaken, but I was under the impression that the late Professor Franklin McDuffee of Dartmouth also won the Newdigate in 1924 with his poem, Michelangelo...
...Willian Chase Greene, professor of the classics at Harvard, turned the trick [with his prize poem, Richard I Before Jerusalem] as a Rhodes scholar...
Hugh Amory read his Poem, and Dustin M. Burke the Class Ode, after which Chorister James L. Harkless led in its singing to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Sandwiched between these literary notes was a plea for money by President of the Alumni Association William M. Rand '09, and a welcome to the ranks of the Ten Thousand Men by Henry R. Guild, head of the Harvard Club of Boston, and representing the Associated Harvard Clubs...
John Updike once again has done most of the literacy and art work for the 'Poon, and while his writing is clear and witty as usual, mass production seems to have dulled his choice of material. One poem treats the case of the intellectual whose appreciation of literature has one fatal crack--an inability to appreciate Pogo. This sort of thing has been written in the past about Chaplin, Mickey Mouse, and Li'l Abner. It is hardly an exciting theme, but Updike treats it quite as well as anyone has in the past. Far better is his theme-poem...
Concerning your note, "Kremlin Waxworks" [TIME, May 19], I have long been an admirer of Robert Service. My admiration has now increased. The reason is to be found in a poem, The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb, which contains the following lines...