tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post7435114302739231388..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: My Bette Davis storyDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-91497978203031912008-04-11T08:49:00.000+02:002008-04-11T08:49:00.000+02:00We probably have Sandburg to thank for Studs Terke...<I> We probably have Sandburg to thank for Studs Terkel.</I><BR/><BR/>Ah, for that alone, we would owe him a great deal of gratitude.<BR/><BR/>Such a wonderful story - thank you.<BR/>And such a great comment from Edward, too. Like some other great American authors, Sandburg looked the part as much as he captured American spirit on paper. I never saw him person, but now I feel that I did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-60341051998963879032008-04-07T23:57:00.000+02:002008-04-07T23:57:00.000+02:00I'd no idea...I'd no idea...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-2062729541124886412008-04-07T23:54:00.000+02:002008-04-07T23:54:00.000+02:00Sandburg had a gaunt chiseled face and the whitest...Sandburg had a gaunt chiseled face and the whitest, lankest hair possible, and he shambled when he walked. He always seemed to be wearing dungarees even if he had donned a disheveled suit. It's impossible to oversate his effect.<BR/><BR/>He, Dos Passos, Frost, and Steinberg are somehow all linked in my mind, associations made during that decarde. We probably have Sandburg to thank for Studs Terkel. The two of them laid Chicago's claim to something more than "hog butcher to the world."<BR/><BR/>I can easily imagine the scene you describe. I entered U of C in '62, and Sandburg was still a Chicago icon. It took Mike Ditka to take him down a notch. After that, it was "Da bears" more than poetry for everyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-31297201886201592062008-04-07T23:53:00.000+02:002008-04-07T23:53:00.000+02:00I'd no idea...I'd no idea...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241922498109843459noreply@blogger.com