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...year of victory and threatening peace, the poets were not up to much. The biggest news was made by two soldier-poets, Frenchman Louis Aragon, and Ser geant Karl Shapiro...
...Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of what poetry (and its readers) have come to, that the publication of this work was widely regarded as an important event. The poem contains many unexceptionable and not too generally recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident...
...Moines' Iowa Packing Co., one H. Shapiro, a veteran who wanted to return as an 83f^-an-hour sausage stuffer instead of going back to his job as a 74^-an-hour check sealer, provided a test case for his union. After a four-day strike of 1,000 workers, the union won its demand that returning servicemen receive all promotions granted to colleagues in their absence...
...Manhattan, Tin Pan Alleysmiths Shapiro-Bernstein heard a recording of Jilted Love in 1938, hired Songwriter Lew Brown to write some words that would bounce like the music. Result: the Polka's now familiar "Roll out the barrel" lyrics...
Teeth grow from tiny buds (tooth germs) which are present in the gums at birth. Drs. Harry H. Shapiro of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bernice L. Maclean of Hunter College removed some buds from week-old kittens, transplanted them to the mouths of other kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded...