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...cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride to: The Berlin court-on-wheels, which visits profiteers. (P. 10.) Samuel Vauclain and Samuel Gompers. They make good speeches. (P. 6.) The airplane at Étampes directed by wireless. (P. 26.) Carl Sandburg and his mystical, rhythmical love of Chicago. (P. 15.) Dr. Koo, who is said to have lost "by one bamboo" and, sportsmanlike, to have taken the post of Foreign Minister as penalty. (P. 13.) An endeavor to stimulate undergraduate thought and learning in spite of the curriculum. (P. 19.) Foch, Marshal...
...novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago; Ben Hecht, who aims to shock; and last, but oh! not least, Carl Sandburg...
...Carl Sandburg is the focal point of Chicago literary life. He breathes Chicago. He is Chicago. If you would understand that banging, sweeping city with its stockyards and its shining lakefront, read The Windy City. No poem, perhaps, ever epitomized a city so successfully. Sandburg is tall, stooping, quiet, his voice, hesitant and booming. To explore Chicago streets with Sandburg on a summer day is to learn the spirit of the town...
...Sandburg's parents were Swedish, yet somehow he has the warmth of southern countries in him, too. He was born in Galesburg, Ill. He was a soldier in the Spanish-American War. He has worked on railroads. He has washed dishes. He has been a political organizer and soap-box orator. He attended "Lombard College," where he was editor-in-chief of the undergraduate paper. Wide contacts with the facts of life have given him a love of people in the mass of crowds, of ugliness, of brutality. More than any other American poet, with his curious rythms sprung from...
...Carl Sandburg, Chicago poet, defines poetry as " a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...