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...come to the U. S. Landing in Manhattan in November, he and shy Señora Campos bought a small car and proceeded to jaunt over 17,000 miles of the Southwest, the West and Mexico, stopping off in Hollywood for two months. There Artist Campos and Cine-martist Walt Disney talked over the possibilities for bigger & better animated cartoons. Most fun Artist Campos has yet had in the U. S. was in Los Angeles, Calif., where he rode as a gaucho in the rodeo...
Spike Chace, of course, remains at stroke and Bob Stevens at 7, a position he held on the Freshman crew last year. Doug Erickson will row 6 and John Gardiner 5 for his second season. Walt Kernan, 6 on the 1937 Freshman eight, will hold down his brother's job at 4. Dud Talbot is another who will be two years at his post, number 3. John Richards at 2 and John Clarke at bow will complete the lineup...
...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...