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Snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg lost a tooth (to a dentist) and gained a year, making him 79. On his North Carolina farm he was grinding out verses, more autobiography and strumming his old guitar. Prairie Bard Sandburg cheerfully prophesied: "I'll die propped up in bed, trying to do a poem about America...
Just a farm boy in Manhattan to get an Albert Einstein Commemorative Award, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, 78, downed some scrambled eggs and deplored the U.S.'s manner of pursuing happiness. Result of the pursuit: "Fat-dripping prosperity." Said the Illinois sage: "When the goal of a country is only happiness and comfort, there is danger. Albert Einstein said as much . . . Listen, 'To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me.' You see, he wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before...
...years as a bellwether of U.S. belles-lettres, while printing such "firsts" as T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Carl Sandburg's Chicago, the monthly has struggled along with account books that would never scan. Last July Poetry seemed finally about to die. But last week, in poetry's biggest rescue operation since the Greeks went after Helen, Poetry piled up enough money to buy a carload of shoestrings...
...Lannan got impressive support elsewhere. Carl Sandburg called him "the St. John the Baptist that poets have been looking for since Harriet Monroe [the magazine's founder] died"-and agreed to do a fund-raising reading next year. Among the sponsors for the supper: Pierre du Pont III, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Daniel R. Topping, Charles Edison. Conspicuously absent was Adlai Stevenson's ex-wife Ellen Borden Stevenson, longtime Poetry Patroness who resigned from the magazine's board 18 months...
Died. Donald Clifford Brace, 73, co-founder (1919) and president (1942-48) of Harcourt, Brace & Co., publisher of the early Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, T. S. Eliot; after long illness; in Manhattan...