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...followed quickly by the emergence of two daughters, he also hoped to make a living, so he continued at what people paid him (very well) to do, which was to fill the space between prose and ads with verse that was alternately and sometimes simultaneously cheerious and sneerious. He wrote children's books, screenplays and a hit song ("Speak Low") for the Broadway show "One Touch of Venus," But his bread-and-butter, which after a while was caviar and Dom Perignon, was magazine work in the light-verse genus. In a 40-year career he wrote for Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Ode to Ogden | 8/22/2002 | See Source »

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