Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...where George Gein was scratching out a living, the undisputed head of the family was his dominating wife Augusta. To her sons Henry and Edward, Augusta Gein railed ceaselessly about the vices of modern women?their short skirts, artificial hair waves, powder and lipstick. During heavy rains she would read to the family the story of Noah and the flood, prophesied another flood to wash out women's sins. She made no secret of her favoritism for her younger son. Eddie Gein (rhymes with wean) became a mama's boy, hating other women as mother had willed. As he grew...
...Heads. Eddie Gein read a lot, mostly magazines and detective stories. When he dropped in on neighbors or at a Plainfield ice-cream parlor (he almost never drank), Eddie seemed well informed, especially about the latest crime sensation, often volunteered ideas about how the criminal might have got away. When a crime was committed nearby, rail-thin (5 ft. 8 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-looking, mild-spoken Eddie Gein sometimes said he had done it. His hearers laughed. To a neighbor-storekeeper's son, Bob Hill, Gein showed what he called "a couple of shrunken heads" that he said...
...Oppenheim? . . . Where is Sol Funaroff? What happened to Potamkin? . . . One sat up all night talking to H. L. Mencken and drowned himself in the morning." Then the Rexroth verse turns to a super Bohemian and aman who was also a good poet: Dylan Thomas. When Rexroth first read the poem, 500 fans stormed The Cellar (seating capacity: 43) to hear...
Bumper Crop. In Richmond, Pedestrian Fred Van de Water observed on the windshield of a large four-door sedan a neatly printed, unsigned note that read: "You may not realize that a small English sports car is parked behind you. Please be careful not to run it down...