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Poetess' Brevity Sets New Record

More than 200 modern verse enthusiasts crowded into Sever 11 yesterday afternoon to hear poetess Marianne Moore recite four of her lyrics in one of the shortest Morris Gray readings ever held. The whole meeting lasted less than half an hour.

Miss Moore, who prefaced her brief reading with random remarks on the qualities that characterize a good poet, was introduced by Professor F. O. Matthiessen.

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