Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound class, Jerry Smith of Adams House decisioned Jack Johnson of Kirkland. Leverett's Mat Peppard defeated Puritan Jim Cummiskey, and Dick Conway of Adams beat Bill Klein of Leverett by TKO's in the 145 pound group...
Funster Tom Butler defeated Dick Harrington of Eliot by a decision in the 155 pound class, and in the same class Sam Paschal of Leverett scored a TKO over Eliot's Tom Morrison...
House and freshman boxing trials opened yesterday afternoon. Results were--135 pound class: J. Smith defeated A. Lichanco, and E. Furth defeated D. Smith; 155 pound class; W. Parks defeated J. Harlow, J. Manning defeated J. Cahonet, T. Butler defeated S. Skinner, S. Paschal defeated W. Hinman and T. Morrison defeated C. McKahn; 165 pound class: D. Hansen defeated P. de Dergie, A. Nilson defeated H. Hicks and H. Smith defeated J. Fraser...
...partly because of overwork in his dual career as banker and poet, Eliot was on the verge of a breakdown. While resting under the care of a specialist at Lausanne, he finished The Waste Land. He sent it for criticism to his friend, brilliant, erratic Poet Ezra Pound,* who blue-penciled it down to half its size. The poem first appeared in 1922, in the first issue of The Criterion, the small literary magazine which T. S. Eliot was editing with Lady Rothermere's backing,† The Waste Land turned out to be the most influential poem...
...Including Walter Lippmann, Heywood Broun, John Reed, Stuart Chase, Alan Seeger. *Eliot's avowed admiration for Pound (who "discovered" him) has provoked bitter criticism. Last year, a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the U.S. Library of Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award...