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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1943
Page
15
The 1943 Easter shopping scene offers versatile wardrobes from rayon surahs and tussahs to soft suits and coat-dresses. American designers showcase slim silhouettes and practical chic with color and fabrics ranging from wool to crepe, promising a vibrant wartime fashion spirit.
James Larkin Pearson, Wilkes County's famed poet laureate, remains on his Boomer fifty acres despite fame. Born 1879 atop Berry's mountain, he penned verses while farming, later mixing rural life with journalism in The Fool Killer.
ROSSELLEN CALLAHAN notes that coat-dress emerges as a key spring silhouette in a year when coats are banned for spring wear. The style works as a coat over outfits now and as a dress in fall and winter, sharing limelight with updated soft dressmaker coats and the Chesterfield trend.
The writer Pearson rose from early sales to national prominence with Fifty Acres and Pearson's Poems. He published Castle Gates in 1908 and the popular Pearson's Poems in 1924, later joining Munsey Magazines, the Literary Digest, and the New York Times. He lived on his Boomer farm, endured personal loss, remarried Eleanor Fox in 1939, and continues to hope for more influential work.
Carl Sandburg the renowned poet and biographer will address the annual meeting of the Friends of Duke University Library on April 12. Duke librarian Dr John J Lund announced the event.
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