Word: walts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WALT WHITMAN'S POSE-Esther Shephard-Earcourt, Brace...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...
...Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction." But he was always afraid he was going to be found out. So the poor devil spent his time deceiving his friends about the source of his inspiration, carefully neglected...
...Westport resident is Patrick A. Powers, an enterprising Irishman, onetime backer of Walt Disney, organizer of Universal Film Co., later of Film Booking Office of America (forerunner of RKO) who sold out his Hollywood interests several years ago, purchased a 200-acre estate in Westport, where he built the Longshore Country Club. Sociable, civic-minded Powers spends his winters in a marble-floored palace at Spuyten Duyvil on the Hudson River, wears green suits and still sports an Irish accent. Last week he promised Westporters a great gift: he would build a $100,000 "marine stadium" at Westport, lease...
Looking very much better than last year is John Senior, the leader in the struggle for the four oar. Walt Kernan, now stroking the seconds may come in here and Bill Rowe can then take Kernan's Jayvees. Phil Dean is a rather un-likely prospect for this opening...