Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rambling and reminiscing, the President recalled that he himself had once been a boy editor for the Independence (Mo.) high school paper. It was called The Gleam, "after that admonition in Tennyson's poem-'After it, follow it, follow the Gleam.' "* Then Truman, who seldom misses a chance to upbraid the press, got in a typical dig: "We do have . . . some publications which do not care very much for the truth ... I hope that if any of you become editors of great publications . . . you will stick strictly to the truth and nothing but the truth...
...March issue's contents eight of the fifteen articles are primarily informative, while the rest are exercises in axe-grinding. There are also a few features--a meandering poem about rights and a condemned book about the American people...
From manufacturing chlorine in chem lab to baking good apple pie for dinner--this is the double life that 36 Radcliffe girls living in cooperative houses lead. Menus and recipes become as important for them as math formulas or the analysis of a Yeats poem...
Besides a bold, colorful cover by Lewis Gifford and two passable stories by Michael Arlen and Charles OsBorne, only Updike's drawing and light verse save the Lampoon from falling into the category of dull, soggy reading matter. On the other hand, Updike's Advocate sketch, his poem Famous Americans II, and five snappy drawings are really high quality material--worthy, I believe, of the Benchley, Williams Golden Age of Lampoonery...
...cartoons, by Gifford, Charles Robinson, and Sadri Khan, are mediocre at best. As for the reprints, none of them is even worth printing. In fact, one full page cartoon, which shows a man learning to swim in an empty pool, is undoubtedly the worst piece in the issue. The Poem Back Bay runs a close second...