Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POETRY The Vice President of Shapes In Hartford, Conn., a solid, conservative city of insurance companies, a solid, conservative old insurance man man died of cancer last week. He was was Wallace Stevens, 75, vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., a firm he had been associated with...
Stevens, said Wilson Jainsen, president of the company, "was renowned as a specialist in surety-bond work." Besides surety bonds, Wallace Stevens had another speciality that brought him worldwide renown. He was one of the finest poets of of a generation whose special need for poetry Wallace Stevens well understood...
He believed that 20th century man was subjected to an unprecedented bombardment of reality. "We are confronting a set events," he had written, "not only beyond our power to tranquillize them in the mind, beyond our power to reduce them and metamorphose them, but events that stir the emotions to...
¶ Craig D. Munson, 56, became president of International Silver of Meriden, Conn., world's largest silverware manufacturer (1954 sales: $64 million), succeeding the late Maltby Stevens. Born in nearby Wallingford, Munson prepped at Wallingford's Choate School, went on to Yale (where he rowed in the varsity...
B. K. STEVENS Centreville, Mo.