Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Layzer's treatment of the decline of love in "Brownstone," this year's Garrison Prize Poem, is at times difficult, but his language merits extra effort. Unfortunately this is not always true of much of the magazine's other poetry...
...where it might be cut off, and sent soldiers to establish roadblocks on Cairo-to-Suez highways. Egyptian staff officers pored over studies of the 1951-52 fighting to make sure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes. The government restricted sales of supplies to the British garrison (Tommies feared for their three-bottles-a-day quota of Stella beer...
Robert B. Layzer '53 was the winner of the $210 Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for 1952-53 for his poem, "Brownstone." He will also receive a silver medal. Charles E. Neuhauser '53 was awarded honorable mention...
...miles south of the Nasan hedgehog. They spent $100,000 of U.S. Mutual Security funds* to repair the Samneua airstrip. Fortnight ago, after throwing one of his divisions around Nasan, Giap's forces jumped Samneua. The French abandoned Samneua and its air strip as "indefensible," and the garrison fled south across uncharted mountains, carrying their wounded on their backs and harried all the way by the Viet Minh. Supplied by air with food and water, and with Benzedrine to keep them from falling asleep and being ambushed, the French reached Xiengkhouang (pronounced sing kwong), a market town in north...
...five former leaders of the outlawed Communist Party, the cops arrested the Reds and closed in on the colonel. Shouting "I will not leave here alive," he fell back. The cops, not too sure about collaring colonels, also fell back. For three hours they stood guard until the local garrison commander was finally found at an afternoon movie. "Remove him by force, if necessary!" he roared...