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...competitor: "If you want to put us out of business, go ahead and try. Goodbye." By 1929 the two Katz stores were grossing $5,000,000 a year. By 1930 the Katzes were famous enough for Mike to be kidnaped by mobsters and held for $100,000 ransom (Ike paid...
French mystic poet Pierre Emmanuel and Professor John Crowe Ransom of Kenyon College will be among 58 visiting scholars from American and European universities who will teach at the 1951 session of the Harvard Summer School, Director William Yandell Elliot announced yesterday...
Emmanuel, who was very well received at last summer's Poetry Conference, attracted wide attention in the fall of 1949 when the State Department accused him of Communist leanings and denied him a visa as a visiting lecturer at Wellesley. Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review, has just published a new book of poems...
...Poet Ransom does become more allusive and complex than that, but he belongs in general, with those modern American poets who seem to be more interested in talking to other people (though sometimes only to other poets) than in talking to themselves. Moreover, 62-year-old John Ransom has cast an increasingly larger shadow over three decades of U S writing history. The "ferment of his ideas in the heads of his old pupils" (a phrase Ransom applies to Aristotle) has had acknowledged results. Some of his ex-pupils: Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate...
...Poet Ransom keeps his own ideas in ferment, too; he is seldom satisfied with what he writes. He thinks he will publish some more verse some day-"But it will not be exactly more of the same...