Word: walt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet George Faludi confessed to the Russians that he had been recruited as an American spy by General Edgar Allan Poe, Colonel Walt Whitman and Captain Henry Thoreau. Thrown into solitary, he composed a whole sequence of poems in his mind. Later he smuggled these poems out of prison by having released prisoners memorize twelve lines at a time and then recite them on a visit to his wife...
...schools. American poets (with very few exceptions) stopped thinking after T. S. Eliot, divided into two camps, and started publishing little magazines. The first flails away at the English language, American technology, form, the gentle passions, and the fairer sex; its grenadiers are men like Allen Ginsberg--neurotic Walt Whitmans with heroin and hypodermic needles and an intense sense of persecution. The second consists of old men with furrowed brows, writing for university quarterlies and occasionally publishing in the Atlantic; substituting form for substance, proceeding with hunched back and hickory cane down the convoluted paths of experiment, translating Latin quartets...
...Republican New York Herald Tribune and president of the U.S. cartoonists. The Russians' deft drawings of the U.S. are being carried by the HT, will appear in a LIFE article next week. The tourists attended the association's convention in Indianapolis last week, will also meet Walt Disney in Los Angeles...
...girl ("You'll be the kiss of the hops in every glass"), as the Scottissue girl, the Santa Fe Railroad's Indian boy ("Santa Fe, all the way"). She is the voice of the impish Tinker Bell orbiting around a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter, of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse, and (on records) of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. One firm planned a commercial featuring an eight-year-old boy, a nine-year-old girl, their mother and grandmother. Gloria did all four characters...
...stars on film with Henry Fonda in Stage Struck, on Broadway with Helen Hayes in Time Remembered. ¶ James MacArthur, 20, son of Helen Hayes and the late Playwright-Journalist Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, entered Hollywood as The Young Stranger, did so well that Walt Disney signed him for The Light in the Forest and the upcoming Banner in the Sky. ¶ Warner Le Roy, 22, son of Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year took over a movie theater on Manhattan's First Avenue, remodeled it, presented Tennessee Williams' long-running...