Word: stoddard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther...
Founders: Stableowner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Publisher Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, Poloists Thomas Hitchcock and Louis E. Stoddard, Stableowner Joseph E. Widener, Lord Stalbridge (onetime M. F. H. The Fernie, England), Sir Edward Curre of Wales, Yeastmaker Julius Fleischmann, Editor Richard E. Danielson of The Sportsman...