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Dudley Randall Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall1914–2000 Poet, publisher, editor In his roles as poet and publisher, Dudley Randall was the leading exponent of the new black poetry movement of the 1960s. Randall, whose critically-acclaimed poems prompted Detroit Mayor Coleman Young to name him the Poet Laureate of the City of... Read more
Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell , 1914-65, American poet and critic, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. (B.A., 1935; M.A., 1938). His poetry, reflecting an unusually sensitive and tragic view of life, includes Blood for a Stranger (1942), The Seven-League Crutches (1951), and The Woman at the... Read more
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1910), a play by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Charlotte Thompson. [Republic Theatre, 216 perf.] Prospects look bleak when ten‐year‐old Rebecca Rowena Randall ( Edith Taliaferro) is sent to live with her seemingly crotchety Aunt Miranda ( Marie L. Day), but... Read more
Alias Jimmy Valentine Alias Jimmy Valentine
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1910), a play by Paul Armstrong. [Wallack's Theatre, 155 perf.] Lee Randall ( H. B. Warner) is a trusted bank employee who is engaged to Rose Lane ( Laurette Taylor). What neither Rose nor his employers know is that he was once a professional safecracker and is an escaped... Read more
Stage Door Stage Door
Stage Door (1936), a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Music Box Theatre, 159 perf.] While boarding at the Footlights Club, a home for aspiring young actresses, Terry Randall ( Margaret Sullavan) finds her loyalty to the theatre sorely tested. Her fiancé, the radical playwright... Read more
Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln 1818-82, wife of Abraham Lincoln , b. Lexington, Ky. Of a good Kentucky family, she was living with her sister, daughter-in-law of Gov. Ninian Edwards of Illinois, in Springfield, Ill., when she met and married (1842) Lincoln. Although they were very different in temperament... Read more
Sir William Randal Cremer Sir William Randal Cremer
Sir William Randal Cremer , 1828-1908, English pacifist. At first active in trade unionism, he gradually expanded his work and interests, becoming one of the most active advocates of international arbitration. In 1871 he became secretary of the Workmen's Peace Association, a position he held until... Read more
Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni 1943– Writer, educator, performer Strong Spirit Fostered Early Launched Writing Career Works Garnered Praise and Notice Poet of the People Developed Academic Side of Career Rebounded From Serious Illness Selected writings Sources Nikki Giovanni began to be known in the late... Read more
Donald Randall Richberg Donald Randall Richberg
Donald Randall Richberg 1881-1960, American public official, b. Knoxville, Tenn. He practiced law in Chicago, served as attorney for the city and for Illinois, and became nationally known after specializing in railroad and labor legislation. He helped draft (1933) the act that established the... Read more
Sawyer Brown Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown Country band For the Record… Out of Step With Nashville “The Walk” a Runaway Success “Something More to Say” Selected discography Sources Sawyer Brown is one of the few bands in country music history to be thrown into the spotlight early in their... Read more

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One Life, One Writing!: The Middle Generation.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review ...Riverman" My life's fever...sweat--one life, one writing...of us into poetry, who delivered...imaginative lives. I stumbled...blind wish in Randall Jarrell...room in the middle of the night...window, in ...
In the Beginning, Such a Happy Couplet
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...John's life had become...authority on the Middle East; she...publishing poetry to ever greater...friendships with Delmore Schwartz, R.P...Lowell, Randall Jarrell...the last generation of American...else ...

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