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Every other Saturday night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
Remembered Exile. All the Fugitives except Davidson have long since fled Vanderbilt and the South, but some are still favorably remembered-and particularly John Crowe Ransom. Last week Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
Dogmatic Slumber. At 60, Ransom is a small, gentle but formidably self-possessed figure, with a silvery forelock clapped over his right temple, and deepsunk eyes. His accent is still softly Tennessean, his manner a little like a family doctor...
...before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce the guilt of the West. Europe's hopes of peace, two years ago kidnaped by the Kremlin, would be offered for ransom -cut rate. A special sale, possibly advertised with the promise that the Cominform was selling its whole stock, again going out of business...
With his wife and three children, Batista now lives quietly in Daytona Beach -next door to 83-year-old automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds. Every morning, he is up at 7 for a brisk row in the nine-foot boat he keeps in the Halifax River. He plays tennis at the smart Daytona Beach Bath and Tennis Club, goes to the movies two or three times a week and occasionally speaks at Rotary Club luncheons...