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...When I was twenty-seven," he begins, "the stock-market crash came. When I was twenty-eight my personal crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Hughes' I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

When the U.S. woke up after the election with a ticket-splitting headache, many politicians and most pundits agreed with the hasty diagnosis of Fair-Dealing Columnist Thomas Stokes: "The personal victory of President Eisenhower dramatizes, by contrast, the increasing weakness of his party." This was a glib, convenient way of talking about Democratic congressional victories against the Eisenhower avalanche. But it was also a superficial and misleading explanation of an election that carried a deeper and vastly more significant meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Crucial Lesson | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...week began with a visit to an uncommitted element of U.S. labor, banqueting in the same Sheraton-Park Hotel ballroom where he had appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Confident Campaigner | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Stahura was shifting, Marv Lebovitz, who had a concussion, hiked the ball past Stahura who never saw it. By the time he woke up, Tufts had recovered on the 8 from where it easily scored. Abrahamian plunged from the four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Second Team Downs Cornell, 14-0 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...Plucky Poet. The story of Tsumakichi has the universal appeal of plain grit. During one night of horror in her 17th year, Tsumakichi woke to find a human head rolling past her on the teahouse veranda, saw a samurai sword flash twice toward her own body, leaving her armless. Her berserk adoptive father, the manager of the teahouse, had lopped off the heads of five of the six people sleeping under his roof that night. Primarily a dancer, she painfully mastered a new art. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad Gay Ladies of Japan | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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