Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Maxwell Bodenheim
Born: May 26, 1892
Died: February 6, 1954 (aged 61)
Bio: Maxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Known for:
- My life and loves in Greenwich Village (1954)
- Introducing irony (1922)
- Cutie: A Warm Mamma (1924)