Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People's Poet if there ever was one, for the New York World's Fair...
Insuranceman Stevenson will soon move to Bryn Mawr, has a son at Princeton. He amuses himself collecting first editions of Scott, Dickens, Twain, Poe and Whitman. His prize possession: the manuscript of Whitman's autobiography, which he picked up for a pittance from a busted bootlegger...
Lloyd Douglas' wife can tell when he is about to start a new novel by two signs: 1) he turns up in a smudged, sagging pair of trousers; 2) he does inspirational reading for his inspirational writing-medical journals and Walt Whitman. One day last year he put on his thinking pants, spotted this Whitman line: Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much...
...lost his religious faith a few years later, while foraging in a cherry tree, but found Grace again in the works of Ruskin, Carlyle, Emerson, Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman (who often visited the Smiths) and Philosopher William James, also a friend of the family. At 23 Logan wangled a lump inheritance, went to Oxford. He never went back to the U. S., except for visits...
Spies and Drugs. In 1916 Philip Musica got out of jail with a suspended sentence as a reward for helping to untangle his own swindle. In the meantime he had gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy investigations under the name of William Johnson. As a side line he tried to get a man named Cohen a death sentence for murdering a chicken handler, Barnet Baff. But when an indictment against him for subornation of perjury in connection with the Cohen case was handed down, William Johnson...