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THIS month two aging American bards, alumni of neighboring Illinois colleges, took up their ruggedly-strung lyres again: Carl Sandburg, 58, Lombard College '02, with The People, Yes; Edgar Lee Masters, 67, Knox College, with Poems of the People...
...about the outdoor Tercentenary Theatre, with a capacity of 15,000 people. An amplifying system has been installed and there are two booths from which photographers can take movies of the activities on the stage on the steps of the Memorial Chapel. A half mile of evergreen has been strung about the various parts of the theatre...
...There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan the high-strung dramatist faced newshawks after three days in seclusion. "I assure you that I took all this very hard," said George Kaufman. "There is only one thing I resent about the case. Some newspaper writer referred to me as a middle-aged playwright. The reason I resent it so much...
...sprint. It carried him, a tiny light-footed figure in loose, black shirt and shorts, past the leaders and down the stretch in such a burst of speed that Cunningham, famed for his own finishing kick, was actually losing ground until Lovelock turned to glance casually at the field strung out behind him and then coasted through the tape, first by six full yards...
...Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child clinging to his chin...