Word: walts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaf smoke on an Illinois dirt road in November. Closely-knit to the material, it has almost none of the lyric blurring of The Prairie Years (where he wrote of Nancy Hanks as "sad with sorrow like dark stars in blue mist"). Because Sandburg has been compared often to Walt Whitman, his mature portrait of Walt is instructive: "Undersized, with graying whiskers, Quaker-blooded, softhearted, sentimental, a little crazy, this Walt Whitman sang to the war years, 'Rise O days, from your fathomless deeps...
Three of the backfield performers and four of the linemen are Seniors; the other four first team choices are Juniors. Nick Drahos and Walt Matuszezak of Cornell, both Juniors, were outstanding in their respective positions, but elsewhere there was keen competition in a year which saw the Ivy League produce some real gridiron talent...
High-grade backfield men were numerous all over the circuit, but this year top mention belongs to Cornell's superb blocking quarterback, pathfinder Walt Matuszezak. He was the heart of Coach Snavely's attack, the answer to any coach's prayer. There were brilliant running backs to run through the gaping holes he manufactured in enemy lines, and chief among them was Whit Baker...
...trained anatomist, Eakins painted figures from the skeleton out, tried to be just as searching in his portrayal of character. One of his few sitters who liked himself as Eakins saw him was Walt Whitman. "Eakins' picture grows on you," said sturdy Walt. "He is not a painter, he is a force." With sober force Eakins painted wrestlers, women knitting, river scenes, surgeons' clinics...
...Nancy, 15. She is also director of a nursery school at Broadoaks School of Education, Whittier College in California. While she raised her children, 107-lb. Mrs. Baruch got three college degrees, taught at Broadoaks, wrote 13 children's books (her latest: a Pinocchio based on Walt Disney' s forthcoming movie), scribbled verse, traveled abroad, swam, rode and played tennis...