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...boss of P.B.S. is Consulting Engineer Peter Andres Strobel, 53, who had pointed his theodolite in the direction of the U.S. from the time he entered Copenhagen's Technical University. At 24, with a diploma and a Danish wife and daughter, Strobel immigrated to New York. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Strobel, the fair's chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman...
Only five of the nine, Edward F. Burke '50, George W. Miller '52, Earle H. Neyman '51, Arthur J. Strobel '53, and Kenneth S. Warren '51, will actually be at the Ann Arbor meeting. The others, Thomas S. James '52, Alton L. Jonkins '52, A. Dale McMullan '51, and Malcolm D. Rivkin '53 will officially be members of the national delegation but will attend only regional conferences...
Today Poetry's editorial desk is in an office on Erie Street, the Bohemian fringe of the Gold Coast. Harriet Monroe's desk is shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
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