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Framing FORTUNE's account of the dispossessed are pictures of a Tennessee family in a poverty-stricken mountain cabin; framing the story on U. S. culture are quotations from Walt Whitman and an album of U. S. folkways, covering U. S. unions, U. S. salesmen, the 30,000 U. S. industrial managers and the 32,000.000 U. S. farmers. In other articles, FORTUNE covers U. S. opinion in a survey, conducted by Poll Taker Elmo Roper, that measures U. S. opinion about itself...
...first review is in Math A, tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. Philip M. Whitman, instructor in Mathematics, will lecture and answer questions. The complete schedule will be announced later...
Taken by Miss Anne Gallup '41, who claimed to be the daughter of Dr. George Gallup of the American Institute of Public Opinion, the poll was conducted in the five big Shepard Street dorms, Briggs, Eliot, Whitman, Bernard, and Cabot...
...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...
...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...