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Next afternoon, while carrier and brotherhood negotiators were still in the White House trying to take best advantage of their 15-day ironing-out period, the President was in a jubilant mood. He took visiting Photographer Edward Steichen and Poet Carl Sandburg into the Cabinet Room to see some of the "toughest people" operating-men. he said, who could throw about 7,000,000 people out of work...
White House newsmen on the South Lawn looked up to the Harry Truman balcony. There was the President of the U.S., with Lynda Bird, Carl Sandburg and Edward Steichen...
...have begun to grumble that Evtushenko and Voznesensky have neither read T.S. Eliot nor profited by exposure to the likes of William Carlos Williams. The complaint is true, but beside the point. Voznesensky and Evtushenko invite useful comparison not with the sophisticated Western poets of today but with Carl Sandburg singing of the Western plains or the chest-thumping celebrations of Walt Whitman. Like Sandburg, and like the U.S. folk singers who make up rhymes for the freedom riders, the new Soviet poets tend to alternate between lyrical simplicity and passionate rhetoric, as in these excerpts translated in Encounter...
Married. Helga Sandburg, 45, novelist and children's author (Joel and the Wild Geese), youngest daughter of the famed poet; and Dr. George Crile Jr., 56, Cleveland surgeon and cancer specialist; she for the third, he for the second time; in a highly informal ceremony conducted by her 85-year-old father over the dining room table at his Flat Rock, N.C., home, followed by a civil marriage in Washington. Carl's wedding presents: one donkey, named Picco, three goats, named Rama, Rowan, and Fleur...
...York Philharmonic. After a rehearsal in Manhattan, Wife Lillian wanted to know what he had done with his lower incisors. "I couldn't find them," quoth Sandburg. "Anyway, they hurt." But the missing teeth soon turned up in his lady's handbag, and Sandburg talked freely. At fourscore and five years, says he, "I don't go around telling people how to live long. My advice reduces itself to this: watch out about stumbling into a coal hole, and-it's always safer to walk upstairs than down...