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Cajoled from his hideaway in Flat Rock, N.C. for a benefit honoring a nearby little-theater group, Poet Carl Sandburg, 80, lofted a missile seemingly aimed at San Francisco's Latin Quarter and Manhattan's MacDougal Street: "Poets ain't doin' so good. They are cursed by obfuscators. They read their poems to each other. They certify each other...
...passion for Peanuts unites such varied readers as Poet Carl Sandburg, General Motors' President Harlow Curtice, and a dozen Navymen at the South Pole who crowd around a bulletin board each day for their Peanuts ration. The sparely drawn strip is included as a comment on mid-century mores in a historical textbook published by George Washington University. Peanuts earned its paterfamilias, Minnesota-born Artist Charles Monroe Schulz, the Cartoonists' Society's annual Reuben Award. Last week the editors of Yale's humorous monthly Record twined ivy in young (35) Charles Schulz's laurels...
Turning 80 this week on his North Carolina goat farm, Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg anticipated living to be 88, maybe even 99. Cried he: "It's inevitable, it's inexorable, it's written in the Book of Fate!" Reason: two of his great-grandfathers and one of his grandfathers expired at ages divisible by eleven...
...three editions each week: city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled up by 30,000 boys in 16,000 communities, nearly 60% of which have a population of 2,500 or less. Some former GnYboys: Poet Carl Sandburg, General Alfred M. Gruenther, South Dakota's Senator Francis Case...
...After dinner at the White House on Dec. 7. 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt confided to him just what losses the Japanese had inflicted at Pearl Harbor that morning. When his broadside against McCarthy provoked the Senator to counterattack, President Eisenhower pointedly described Murrow as his friend. Carl Sandburg calls him a poet. He is a longtime friend-at-the-bar (Scotch, a little water, no ice) of Sir Winston Churchill. Interviewer Murrow is often more celebrated than the celebrities on Person to Person, sometimes must work to bridge the gap. When Rocky Graziano appeared, he urged the prizefighter to call...