Word: spoons
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Where or why Patterson got his uncanny touch, he himself never knew. Like Cousin Bertie, he was born (in Chicago, Jan. 6, 1879) with a silver spoon in his mouth. After Groton, like his cousin, he went to Yale. A year before his graduation, he traipsed off to China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust...
Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made U.S. literary history 30 years ago, and who was last in the news when he was found broke, ill and half-starved in Manhattan in 1944, won a high-timely $5,000 fellowship at 76. Donors: the Academy of American Poets. Observed Poet Masters, resting his way back to health in Charlotte, N.C.: "Poets in America find it hard even to make a living. I personally am very grateful." Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 28-year-old historian (The Age of Jackson), won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a "political-intellectual history...
...have given concerts to strikers in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Schenectady. Its board of directors includes the No. 1 collector of American folk music, 31-year-old Alan Lomax (TIME, Nov. 26). Said he: "We're going to put more into our songs than June moon croon spoon swoon, and sing Bilbo out of Congress...
...vast and desolate landscape. The convulsive and catastrophic shapes of the rocks will give a frozen notion of geological delirium. A silver spoon ten meters long will sprout directly from a rock of iron. Inside the spoon . . . two fried eggs . . . fire red. . . . Twilight shadow and the white of the eggs and the silver spoon will reflect the light of the sky . . . very precisely aquamarine...
Mostly they were a serious lot, impatient with spoon-fed schooling and such extracurricular attractions as hazing. Their grades averaged well above their fellow students. (At the University of Minnesota, only three of 6,000 ex-G.I.s were in scholastic trouble...