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...Chicago fund-raising fiesta aimed at giving chronically indigent Poetry Magazine a dollar transfusion, cerebral Bollingen Prizewinning Poet John Crowe Ransom helped dredge up more than $20,000 (mostly in donations), read some "rather grim" Ransom works to the audience of 750, then sat back to enjoy an auction of books and literary curios. Most curious curio, one of a batch of letters sent over the years to various magazine editors: a terse note from Calvin Coolidge to Sumner Blossom, onetime editor of American Magazine. Wrote Cautious Cal: "I have not written anything on the subject to which you refer...
...atrocity story of intellectual deadness. At the University of Michigan, Vice President for Student Affairs James Lewis asked a group of 100 students what they thought of Aldous Huxley. "Only one or two of them," he reported, "had ever heard of him." At Kenyon, Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom sadly detects "a sort of idleness of the creative imagination." At the University of Illinois, English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn't be supported in this town." Says Joseph Baker, professor of English at the State University of Iowa: "Even the intellectuals do not read as much...
...JAMES RANSOM...
...country, much of the literary talent in the past thirty years has come from the South: Wolfe, Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and John Crowe Ransom. The South has its own colorful history, way of life and values, all of which came into conflict with the North, a region claiming moral superiority and possessing physical superiority. Southern writers became increasingly aware of the value of regionalism and fought the omnivorousness of Megapolis the exclusive formation of literary taste by New York. This moment reached its peak with the Southern Agarian movement led by Robert Penn...
...they're looking for." Indeed, "they" were. For 3½ days more than 600 searchers-FBI agents, sheriff's deputies, airmen, Boy Scouts-had been frantically stalking a 20-square-mile section of the state. The Post Office had intercepted a crudely written ransom note demanding $10,000 in exchange for Lee Crary's return. Safe at last in the hands of FBI interrogators, Lee devoted 90 minutes to his excruciatingly detailed story...