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...National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the award of its Gold Medal for History and Biography to Pulitzer Prizewinner Carl (Lincoln) Sandburg...
Scandal & Uproar. In the first quarter of the century, Bodenheim, along with men like Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound and Edgar Lee Masters, spawned Chicago's lusty artistic revolt. Harriet Monroe's Poetry and Margaret Anderson's Little Review fought for the privilege of introducing his eccentric verse. Teamed with Ben Hecht, he provided his share of the scandal and uproar that lit up the city...
...weekly children's newscast by H. V. Kaltenborn ("Good morning! Last week two bad men tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney and Arthur Treacher; programs by Poet Carl Sandburg (folk songs), Eleanor Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only two still carrying on. A future possibility: Portrait of New York (new music, to be composed...
...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
...ballad of Frankie & her man, who done her wrong, was called by Carl Sandburg the U.S.'s "classical gutter song." There are upward of 300 versions of Frankie and Johnnie, and no one knows just when & where it began. Frankie Baker, a young tart in St. Louis' Negro district in 1899, was sure she inspired the lament. When her man (Albert Britt) two-timed her, Frankie tongue-lashed him; when he pulled a knife on her, she shot him dead. Tried for murder, she was acquitted because she killed in self-defense. People on the streets began singing...