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February 11
1917 ..."well, civet cat that has taken to street walking." But their short friendship was intense and immeasurably influential, each finding in the other a woman she could speak with about her work as with no one else, and when Woolf learned of Mansfield's death from tuberculosis in 1923, she wrote, "it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it. Katherine's my rival no longer."
— Mar 22, 2026 08:31AM
1917 ..."well, civet cat that has taken to street walking." But their short friendship was intense and immeasurably influential, each finding in the other a woman she could speak with about her work as with no one else, and when Woolf learned of Mansfield's death from tuberculosis in 1923, she wrote, "it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it. Katherine's my rival no longer."
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April 1
1956 On the morning of April Fool's Day Edward Abbey began his first workday as a national park ranger by stepping out of his government trailer and watching the sun rise over the canyon lands of Arches National Monument in Noah, Utah. Outfitted with trailer, truck, ranger shirt, tin badge and five hundred gallons of water, Abbey was left more or less alone for six months, which he recorded journals ...
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1956 On the morning of April Fool's Day Edward Abbey began his first workday as a national park ranger by stepping out of his government trailer and watching the sun rise over the canyon lands of Arches National Monument in Noah, Utah. Outfitted with trailer, truck, ranger shirt, tin badge and five hundred gallons of water, Abbey was left more or less alone for six months, which he recorded journals ...
Judi
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March 31
1934 "I should like to meet the pilgrim halfway," Marianne Moore wrote to her friend Ann Borden a librarian at Vassar who had a young poetical "protégée" who wanted to meet the famous poet. And so Miss Moore came in from Brooklyn and met Elizabeth Bishop, the Vassar senior, at the New York Public Library, where Bishop overcame her nerves enough to invite Moore to the circus. Moore replied that she ...
— Apr 16, 2026 11:27AM
1934 "I should like to meet the pilgrim halfway," Marianne Moore wrote to her friend Ann Borden a librarian at Vassar who had a young poetical "protégée" who wanted to meet the famous poet. And so Miss Moore came in from Brooklyn and met Elizabeth Bishop, the Vassar senior, at the New York Public Library, where Bishop overcame her nerves enough to invite Moore to the circus. Moore replied that she ...
Judi
is on page 101 of 448
March 30
1935 Clifton Fadiman, in the New Yorker, on William Faulkner's Pylon: "I've read it twice, once slowly and again in a burst of desperate speed, on the assumption that the first time I might not have seen the forest for the trees. It has lived me a dozen ways. Reaction analysis: one part repulsion, one part terror, one part admiration, three parts puzzlement, four parts boredom.
— Apr 16, 2026 08:04AM
1935 Clifton Fadiman, in the New Yorker, on William Faulkner's Pylon: "I've read it twice, once slowly and again in a burst of desperate speed, on the assumption that the first time I might not have seen the forest for the trees. It has lived me a dozen ways. Reaction analysis: one part repulsion, one part terror, one part admiration, three parts puzzlement, four parts boredom.
Judi
is on page 100 of 448
March 29
1948...as a direct cause of juvenile delinquency. Wertham first made his name by setting up a free psychiatric clinic in Harlem, supported by his friends Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but, as David Hand describes in the Ten-Cent Plague, through his Senate testimony, his book Seduction of the Innocents and his influence on a new Comics Code he became best known last the source of the comiscs industry.
— Apr 16, 2026 06:16AM
1948...as a direct cause of juvenile delinquency. Wertham first made his name by setting up a free psychiatric clinic in Harlem, supported by his friends Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but, as David Hand describes in the Ten-Cent Plague, through his Senate testimony, his book Seduction of the Innocents and his influence on a new Comics Code he became best known last the source of the comiscs industry.
Judi
is on page 99 of 448
March 28
1888 "At Walt's this evening," Horace Traubel began. They had known each other for a decade, but on this day Traubel began to record his visits with Walt Whitman. The poet was sixty-eight, slowed by a stroke but still dynamic. His young Boswell was twenty-nine, a printer and poet in the spirit of his hero, whose last four years he chronicled,unprettified as Whitman requested, in the nine volumes of Walt...
— Apr 15, 2026 11:32AM
1888 "At Walt's this evening," Horace Traubel began. They had known each other for a decade, but on this day Traubel began to record his visits with Walt Whitman. The poet was sixty-eight, slowed by a stroke but still dynamic. His young Boswell was twenty-nine, a printer and poet in the spirit of his hero, whose last four years he chronicled,unprettified as Whitman requested, in the nine volumes of Walt...
Judi
is on page 98 of 448
March 27
1964 Wilfred Sheed, in Commonweal, on Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: "Thus it comes about that the louder Simone de Beauvoir and Mrs. Friedan shout the funnier they seem...It is quite possible that serious injustice has been done to women: yet there remains a strange aura of frivolity about the whole question."
— Apr 14, 2026 05:02PM
1964 Wilfred Sheed, in Commonweal, on Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: "Thus it comes about that the louder Simone de Beauvoir and Mrs. Friedan shout the funnier they seem...It is quite possible that serious injustice has been done to women: yet there remains a strange aura of frivolity about the whole question."
Judi
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March 26
1969 ...known as El Gringo? Or Hal Croves, who showed up on the set when John Huston was filming Traven's best-known book, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and introduced himself as Traven's "agent"? Our perhaps all of the above. The theories are many, but most now believe that when Hal Croves died in Mexico City on this day, B. Traven died with him, and perhaps all his other identities as well.
— Apr 13, 2026 04:50PM
1969 ...known as El Gringo? Or Hal Croves, who showed up on the set when John Huston was filming Traven's best-known book, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and introduced himself as Traven's "agent"? Our perhaps all of the above. The theories are many, but most now believe that when Hal Croves died in Mexico City on this day, B. Traven died with him, and perhaps all his other identities as well.
Judi
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March 25
1914 Heading straight from Greenwich Vllage to Juarez in a magazine assignment to cover a possible revolution in Mexico in 1913, poet and bohemian journalist John Reed, twenty-six years old, managed to ingratiate himself with the bandit-turned general Pancho Villa and his tattered troops. His reports back, as Villa's increasingly disciplined army advanced toward Mexico City, were full of the romance of ...
— Apr 13, 2026 04:51AM
1914 Heading straight from Greenwich Vllage to Juarez in a magazine assignment to cover a possible revolution in Mexico in 1913, poet and bohemian journalist John Reed, twenty-six years old, managed to ingratiate himself with the bandit-turned general Pancho Villa and his tattered troops. His reports back, as Villa's increasingly disciplined army advanced toward Mexico City, were full of the romance of ...
Judi
is on page 95 of 448
March 24
1956 ... uninjured, as the field, and the championship passed him by. While Devon Loch's inexplicable slip may not be, as one Liverpool paper claimed, "the greatest tragedy in the history of sport," it has remained one of its most enduring enigmas. his jockey, Francis once England's champion rider, retired soon after, and in 1962 Dead Cert became the first of his over forty bestselling racetrack mysteries.
— Apr 12, 2026 01:56PM
1956 ... uninjured, as the field, and the championship passed him by. While Devon Loch's inexplicable slip may not be, as one Liverpool paper claimed, "the greatest tragedy in the history of sport," it has remained one of its most enduring enigmas. his jockey, Francis once England's champion rider, retired soon after, and in 1962 Dead Cert became the first of his over forty bestselling racetrack mysteries.
Judi
is on page 94 of 448
March 23
1944 Published: Dangliong Man by Saul Bellow (Vanguard, New York)
— Apr 12, 2026 08:47AM
1944 Published: Dangliong Man by Saul Bellow (Vanguard, New York)
