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...years ago, on a football season weekday holiday, Brown students took advantage of the vacation to come up from Providence and paint the name of their college on the pillars of Widener Library. The raiders were caught and punished by Brown authorities...
...pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons. All of the pilots were combat veterans, all but eight were married...
...husky, caressing voice murmurs: "Hello, muffin, this is your lonesome gal. How are you tonight, baby? Your lonesome gal loves you better than anybody in the world, just remember that . . ." These fudgelike endearments, dripping from U.S. radios every weekday night, cause chest flutterings and glassy stares in cross-country truck-and-trailer rigs, diners, Army barracks and teen-age bedrooms from El Pasp to Boston...
...works hard at being a radio teacher of English, which he interlards with American slang dating back to the '20s. "You bet your life!" a Hirakawa-trained Japa-nese will cry, and "Atta girl!" and "Boy oh boy!" Nicknamed "Uncle Come-Come" because the theme song of his weekday program is an adaptation of the old Japanese children's song Come, Come, Everybody, Joe teaches his listeners about 30 new words each show. He uses short dialogues that have such everyday applications as giving road directions to a stranger or shopping in a department store. Every Friday...
...from Poetry magazine in 1914 for four of his earliest verses (Phases). Like London Publisher T. S. Eliot, he has never regarded poetry as a full-time job. To have daily contact with other work, he says, "gives a man character as, a poet." Promptly at 8:15 every weekday morning, Insuranceman Stevens strides into his Hartford office. Often he hands his secretary a crumpled bit of paper bearing a specimen of his minuscule handwriting-his poem for the day. Sample (in which he uses a blue guitar as a symbol of the poet's transforming...