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Then, instead of quoting Rhymester Edgar Guest, President Reynolds launched his poetical boom with three stanzas of verse composed in collaboration with two newsworthy U. S. poets, Joseph Auslander (No Traveller Returns) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, Audrey Wurdemann (The Seven Sins). First stanza, "fabricated" by Mr. Reynolds, who usually devises his rhymes while shaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poetical Boom | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Second stanza by Joseph Auslander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poetical Boom | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Third stanza by Audrey Wurdemann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poetical Boom | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Starting with a listless first period in which there was no scoring, the game was livened up in the second stanza as Dunham of the home team scored twice in rapid succession on nice passes from Knowles and Gibson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VANDERBILT UPSETS WINTHROP SEXTET, 4-2 | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

Black Bart was the name assumed by Charles E. Boles. Clad in a linen duster, with a flour sack over his head, he held up 28 stages, never shot anyone. At each holdup, he would leave a suitable stanza of not badly turned verse. Once he signed himself "The PO8" Before his final capture, he reached a reward value of $18,000 "dead or alive." When he got out of jail, Wells Fargo paid him $125 a month not to rob them any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wells Fargo | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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