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Fortnight ago, a silver-haired Southern gentleman named John Crowe Ransom stood up in Manhattan to receive the 1964 National Book Award for poetry. As founder and editor of the Kenyon Review, mentor to a platoon of celebrated poets and writers, and father of the New Criticism, Ransom is probably the most influential U.S. scholar-critic of the past 40 years. As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time...
...robber who compels a victim to move from one room to another can be charged with kidnaping; so can a parent in a broken family who takes a child from its authorized custodian. In the revised code, the crime Would not be kidnaping unless it involved "holding for ransom or some other purpose usually associated with kidnaping...
Catholic layman in the U.S., "worn only by men and women whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and enriched the heritage of humanity"; Author John Updike, 32, Critic Aileen Ward, 40, and Poet John Crowe Ransom, 75, each presented with a $1,000 National Book Award for last year's The Centaur, John Keats: The Making of a Poet and Selected Poems, respectively; Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, 86, now the Senator with the longest record of service in the entire history of the Senate, having passed the longevity total...
...panicked, turned himself in, and blew the whistle on his confederates. John Irwin, 42, an off-and-on house painter with a record ranging from assault to disorderly conduct in four states, was racing south from Los Angeles in a Chevrolet station wagon purchased with $1,000 of the ransom money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted to terror. In San Juan Capistrano, Irwin stopped, put in a frantic call to his younger brother James, 41, a school purchasing agent, at his home in Imperial Beach, only twelve miles from the Mexican...
Next morning over breakfast in Imperial Beach, John told his story. "He seemed on the verge of collapse," recalls James. "He said he had gotten himself involved in the Sinatra kidnaping. He told me some of the ransom money was in the car." Within half an hour the two brothers decided what they would do. With John listening on an extension phone, James called the FBI in San Diego and told them the story. Agents arrived quickly, arrested John, and recovered $47,938 from a valise in the station wagon outside...