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...like 18) tilts at dragons long since slain and forgotten. At the time of his writing (1913), Pound averred, there was not an artist worth a damn at work in America. "Any pleasant thing in symmetrical trousers" passed for poetry; American literature was pervaded by "magazitis," i.e., the dry rot of the high-toned magazines. Sneered Pound: "It is well known that in the year of grace 1870, Jehovah appeared to Messrs. Harper and Co. and to the editors of The Century, The Atlantic, and certain others, and spake thus: 'The style of 1870 is the final and divine...
...even symbolic Corregidor has escaped the rot. With inside help, raiders recently penetrated the island fortress, cut through its armory's steel doors, and with insolent leisure ferried truckloads of arms, ammunition and supplies-especially detonators, valuable in any guerrilla operation-down to their boats and away...
...respect for the word, the actual lyric. He had excellent diction, and used none of the familiar winks, grimaces, and gestures. Depending solely on the songs for effect throughout the performances. He translated as many of the foreign songs as he could, because, as he explained, "original lyric is rot"--the song is ineffective unless the audience understands it. This disregard for accent extended to his singing Negro songs "straight...
White-haired, keen-eyed Sam Kennedy, Iowa's biggest onion and potato grower, last week finished a distasteful task. Across a 40-acre field on his farm near Clear Lake, Farmer Kennedy dumped 30 carloads of red and yellow globe onions. He put them there to rot. Like many another grower, Kennedy had been caught when onion prices, unsupported by Government props, collapsed a fortnight...
With four sponsors (Colgate Tooth Powder, Mars Candy, Ovaltine, Pollpar-rot Shoes), some 30 commercial tie-ups (hand puppets, record album, comic books, a rocking chair that plays It's Howdy Doody Time), and a two-hour morning disc jockey show on Manhattan's WNBC, Smith can look forward this year to a $350,000 income. The only change he plans for Howdy Doody is an increasing emphasis on plot: "Slapstick alone will not hold kids. You need some sort of a story line. And, within the confines of this show, we can do almost anything." Anything within...