critiquing the first full biographical treatment of poet Ogden Nash<\/a>, brought out a couple of e-mails from old friends who had to put some effort into finding an address. On fellow I haven’t had contact with in about seven years, and the other since high school. He graduated in a different year so I haven’t even gotten word about him in reunion news. This is welcome. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, July 3, 2005: Several times a year I do a book report, oops, a book review (I am a grown-up), for the paper. 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