Word: rapunzel
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...haughty little magazines and the anthologists never knew him, and would have ignored him if they had. But all their Rapunzel-haired poets together never spoke to an audience the size of his. And when he died last .week, the New York Times obit said of Philip Stack: "He was rated the leader in his art." It was a lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar...
...Niederzwehren, from peasants and villagers, from family friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
Veronica Lake, streamlined Rapunzel, whose divorce from Major John Detlie, peacetime Hollywood art director, becomes final on Dec. 2, announced her engagement to Andre de Toth, 29, Hungarian-born cinema director...