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Versifier Rod McKuen, 41, has returned to the kind of drifting blue-collar work that he used to do before he hit the treacle trail in 1966 with Stanyan Street and made his first million. To research a book he plans to write about "what people are doing in America," Rod is back driving cabs, grooming horses, baking cookies and selling ice cream in the streets. Hardly anybody has recognized him so far. But when Rod was pumping gas at a station recently in Miami, a woman drew up in a blue compact and gasped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1974 | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...show had impressive sparseness. Wearing a formless sweater, black pants and sneakers, McKuen kept the talk to a discreet minimum and spent his time singing his songs-The World I Used to Know, a medley of Stanyan Street, Lonesome Cities and Listen to the Warm -and reciting a poem about one of his few New York friends, A Cat Named Sloopy. He wandered through a set that seemed to have been plucked from a haunted harbor on San Francisco Bay. If the fog spewing out of the NBC special-effects machine looked at times as if it were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: The Loner | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...Stanyan, '87 is at present occupying a position on the reportorial staff of the Troy Telegraph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/18/1885 | See Source »

...Stanyan, '87 is at present occupying a position on the reportorial staff of the Troy Telegraph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/15/1885 | See Source »

...audience that assembled at the Athenxum rooms last evening was very large. The programme consisted of Part I, a Minstrel Show, with the following taking part: H. E. Peabody (interlocutor); J. H. Knapp and A. R. Weed (bones); J. B. T. Tuthill and F. H. Stanyan (tambos); and Messrs. A. T. Dudley, Luce, Eldredge, Bowen, Bourne, Ames, Parmenter, Hale, J. W. Dudley, and G. P. Knapp; and Part II, Song and Dance, Mr. J. H. Knapp, Bouquet of Reveries, F. H. Stanyan, singing by quartette, Messrs. Eldredge, A. T. Dudley, J. W. Dudley, and H. E. Peabody, and a farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everett Athenaeum Minstrel Show. | 3/25/1885 | See Source »

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