Word: whitcomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verses carried Eddie Guest to fame and wealth. With the Free Press as his home base, Guest at one time saw his verses syndicated in 275 newspapers. He filled 25 books, and some 3,000,000 people bought them, as before they had bought Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James Whitcomb Riley. A Heap o' Livin' ("It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies...
Guest's success confounded him almost as much as it did his critics. As well as anyone else he knew his limitations. "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used to write," said Guest. "All he tried to be was sincere." All Eddie Guest was was sincere; reading his verses on TV, he used to weep with the emotions they aroused in him. And perhaps it was because millions of readers recognized sincerity and shared in those emotions that Edgar A. Guest, the newspaperman who wrote verse, was a U.S. phenomenon...
...Tues., July 27-28, Dean David B. Tyack; Wed.-Thurs., July 29-30, Professor Calvin O. Schrag, Purdue University; Fri., July 31, Gareth B. Matthews; Mon. Aug. 3, Dr. Paul B. Yale; Tues., Aug 4, Professor C. Crane Brinton; Wed.-Fri., Aug. 5-7, The Rev. Nathaniel T. Whitcomb, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., Aug. 10-11, Wallace MacDonald; Wed.-Fri., Aug 12-14, Dean Samuel H. Miller; Mon.-Wed., Aug. 17-19, Rev. Walter F. Smith
Roger Tuckerman and John Mudd led the Crimson attack with two goals apiece; Kay Khan accounted for the other score. Pete Goldman and Howard Whitcomb tallied for the Bruins...
When the varsity let down in the third period, Brown quickly capitalized. Goldman scored his goal on a breakaway and Whitcomb got his when Crimson goalie Tom Bagnoli and Keyes became confused and each thought the other would clear a loose ball in front of the varsity nets...