Word: walt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should discover a behind-scenes maneuver whereby a dainty Butterfly is achieved only through a cure with special macaroni." Six Roman Catholic Holy Name Societies in southern New Jersey protested because a new $100 million bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, N.J. is named after a longtime Camdenizen, earthy Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman. Reason: Whitman portrayed "the common man" as "homoerotic," i.e., hankering perversely for other common men. A rebuttal came promptly from the former head of the public agency that built the bridge: "We could find [no] evidence that Walt Whitman was homosexual. A genius sometimes does things...
...Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen, gave Poet Walt Whitman his sturdiest monument, a huge, perhaps overstuffed life that probably includes every available scrap of information about Walt...
...Crimson and the U.S. Olympic team could result in a meeting of the Cleary brothers, sophomore Bob and last year's All-American center forward Bill. Besides Bill Cleary, other former varsity players presently trying players out for the Olympic team include defenseman Doug Manchester and 1953 Captain Walt Greeley...
...gathered at the dinner to hear the talks, interview the coaches, and review the season among themselves. The varsity football team was one of the main topics of conversation among the writers, with several expressing the opinion that the Crimson would have had a better record had sophomore tailback Walt Stahura soon more service. But if it is easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, it is even easier to decide what was wrong ten days after the close of the season...
...Crimson, lacking the fullback keystone in its ground attack--all the more so after Oehmler was hurt--capitalized on passing, especially the latent serial talent of Walt Stahura. His in-spite-of-the-snow pitches to quarterback Joe Crehore, one of the most improved players on the team, provided at least a small boost to Harvard pride, already dampened by cold, snow, and the Yale team...