Louis Untermeyer, in “In This Issue” (p. 5), describes the work of Bob Brown: “If anyone is equipped to sing the Stein Song – in the key of Gertrude – it is no other than Bob Brown. Which is to confess that my enthusiasm for the fellow is almost unqualified. I’ve been saying privatly and I’m willing to say publicly that Bob Brown is the sort of phenomenon that this country needs far more than a good five-cent president. B. B. is uncompromising. He is salt after a diet of saccharine. He is the welcome opposite of pink pincusion preciosity. He worships nothing except malt and Malthus; if he has any god it is Gusto.”
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