Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front-Office Punch. The man who made the Journal what it is today is Harry Johnston Grant, a square, muscular dynamo of a man with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most...
...Rush. To salve his conscience as he grew older and the calendar ran m reverse, he joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton. After that, Mark devoted the rest of his life to visiting Walt Whitman, dressing French wounds in the Franco-Prussian War and preaching Wilsonian democracy on park benches to young men who weren't even ready for Grover Cleveland...
...just enough breeze to fill the wings of the zephyrs-and just enough sunshine to reflect a sparkle in the eyes of beautiful women-and just enough people . . . on the pave to make one continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other daily, six Saturday and five Sunday newspapers, all serving a population...
Broadway Dandy. Whitman was at his best when, in impressionistic, rhapsodic style, he told about his New York-"the great place of the western continent, the heart, the brain, the focus, the main spring, the pinnacle, the extremity, the no more beyond, of the New World ..." A tall, graceful young man in fashionable top hat and frock coat, Whitman took a stroll every day down Broadway to the Battery, in search of editorial inspiration. In his lapel was a fresh boutonniere, on his arm a dark and polished cane, in his roving eye a twinkle. He sniffed the clean...
...Whitman took his readers on a mouthwatering tour of the Grand Street market: "What an array of rich, red sirloins, luscious steaks, delicate and tender joints . . ." At Hudson & Ottingnon's gym, he found a sweaty figure "laboring up a smooth pole with all the eagerness of a man struggling for life," and commended the practice to dyspeptic readers. At a temperance meeting, he noted with amusement a sign reading BEWARE THE FIRST GLASS.** Whitman, a nondenominational Christian, told how he explained the Crucifixion, by signs, to a deaf-mute child: "It was very singular . . . that the mind of this...