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Also elected were Nancy R. Fisher of Moors Hall and Washington, second marshal; Mrs. Peggy Brown Bevington of Cambridge, third marshal; S. Jean Ross of Barnard Hall and Cincinnati, fourth marshal; and E. Joan Avery, of Whitman Hall and Highland Park, III., fifth marshal...
...Seattle, Wash.; Lester R. Moulton, Marblehead, Mass.; Stewart Ogden, Louisville, Ky.; Harold P. Santmire of Buffalo, N. Y.; Stephen L. Singer of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Glenn E. Sisler of Birmingham, Mich.; Barry L. Wasserman of Brookline, Mass.; Francis J. Weller Jr. of Pelham, N. Y.; David L. Whitman of Chappaqua, N. Y.; Gayle B. Wilhelm (Mgr.) of Amherst, Mass...
...Hope of Walt Whitman. The idea of chronicling Sadakichi's wayward life and times began as a club gag. But Fowler took it seriously, and raked together the few known facts about this eccentric's eccentric. When he was not with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call...
...that Sadakichi heard a fairly powerful mating call from somewhere, for he married twice and fathered 13 children, one illegitimate. But his first love was poetry, and he always carried a testimonial to his early genius in the form of a tattered newspaper clipping of 1888. In it Walt Whitman said: "I have more hopes of Hartmann, more faith in him than in any of the boys." Few connoisseurs today would show such faith in Sadakichi's poems, e.g., the couplets that Biographer Fowler uses as chapter headings. Samples: "I made a bed of sun and sand / Beside some...
Accompanying Stout when the bomb exploded in front of Whitman Hall at Radcliffe was a Wigglesworth dormmate, who left College March 16 as a result of Dean's Office action...