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March 7, 1953

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THE SWAN IN THE "MIRROR."

Wolcott Gibbs

PROFILE of Nick Kenny, the poet laurate of the N.Y. Mirror. A minnesinger named Harry Schlacht, had for sixteen years created patriotic essays and poems …