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...petition, drafted by poet-author Allen Ginsberg and Richard Alpert, former assistant professor of Psychology and Education, protests Leary's punishment "as a symbol of society's common anxiety concerning drug abuse...
...Greenwich Village party a few years back, talk turned to the problems of a young girl. As he listened, Poet-Author Robert Graves scratched out on the back of an envelope verse far different from his customary classical approach. He then forgot about it. But composer-friend John Benson Brooks thought it such a hummer he recently put it to music. Now Decca has included it in an album called A vant Slant, due out next month. Sample lyrics from Mend Them Fences...
...news of this journalistic invasion, Poet-Author Boris (Doctor Zkivago) Pasternak discreetly abandoned his dacha near Moscow for a Black Sea resort beyond camera or notebook range...
...75th birthday celebration, Poet-Author Carl Sandburg (see BOOKS) told a New York Times writer why it was that, in 1899, he flunked out as a West Point cadet: "It was arithmetic and grammar. Those verbs again. They are terrible things. Nouns are definite, the names of persons or things, but verbs cause all the trouble in the world. All lawsuits are about something coming between two nouns-those verbs...
Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise...