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Poet Carl Sandburg, who had been paid $60,000 in advance to deliver a novel to M-G-M within ten months, sheepishly turned in a 1,480-page work called Remembrance Rock-five years late. Explained Sandburg: "I got interested...
...World of Abraham Lincoln-Carl Sandburg...
Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg turned a wind-blown 70, got two public parties: one in Chicago, where old friends and literary lights gave him a wire-recorder (to record his balladry); the other in his native Galesburg, Ill., where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...
...Copyright Carl Sandburg, permission of Henry Holt...
...resents being called a cynic: "Cynics disbelieve real things; I disbelieve phonies." He claims he is working roughly along the lines of Will Rogers, except that he uses a piano instead of a rope. "The people . . . are just like me. ... I don't want to talk like Carl Sandburg, but I like the people...