Word: fitzgeralds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, who suffered a heart attack three weeks ago; author of This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, other books, stories of the "sad young men" of the postwar flapper era; in Hollywood...
Such poets as Sandburg, Masters, Riding are brutally panned; kindlier treated are Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Euripides and his translators Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Housman was no great minor poet; he was a man obsessed by an adolescent sense of death, with a knack for popular expression of it. Yeats used magic as Dante used Catholicism, as the spine or frame that great poetry needs. But T. E. Lawrence exemplifies the desperation, the brilliance, the failure, of the man of genius who can find no frame...
...balding, 45-year-old Detroit lawyer named John Francis James FitzGerald shocked himself, Michigan and Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg by creeping up on that supposedly impregnable incumbent in late returns...
...Harvard attack seemed to be hogging down when the purple squad with a first period score as a foundation were given two more in quick succession from the toes of John Gibson and Dave Fitzgerald respectively in the fourth. But with Williams knocking on the door to victory the Carrmen tightened their defense and checked further attempts by the enemy. Thus the game ended with Harvard avenged of their 3 to 2 defeat of last year...
Originally WOR feared that the program would attract no volunteers, was soon assuaged in a homely rush. Tactful but frank, Fitzgerald & Willis let the ladies discuss their own drawbacks, are always hopeful even when confronted with a clock-stopping face. Typical guinea-pig comment: "I hate to be homely. My mother's good-looking . . . and it makes me feel like such a lummox...