Masters

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1869-1950, American poet and biographer, b. Garnett, Kans. He maintained a successful law practice in Chicago from 1892 to 1920. Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of epitaphs in free verse revealing the secret lives of dead citizens, was acclaimed for its treatment of small-town American life. Less successful volumes that followed include Starved Rock (1919), Domesday Book (1920), Poems of People (1936), and Illinois Poems (1941). His Lincoln the Man (1931) is a bitter and prejudiced attack. Other biographies are Vachel Lindsay (1935), Whitman (1937), and Mark Twain (1938).

(born Dec. 27, 1915, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died Feb. 16, 2001, Tucson, Ariz.) (born Feb. 11, 1925, Springfield, Missouri, U.S.) U.S. human-sexuality research team. Together (as physician and psychologist, respectively), they founded and codirected the Masters & Johnson Institute in St. Louis. They observed couples having sex under laboratory conditions, using biochemical equipment to record sexual stimulations and reactions. Their book Human Sexual Response (1966) was considered the first comprehensive study of the physiology and anatomy of human sexual activity (see sexual response). They were married in 1971 and continued to collaborate after their divorce in 1993.

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(born Aug. 23, 1869, Garnett, Kan., U.S.—died March 5, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa.) U.S. poet and novelist. He grew up on his grandfather's farm and became a lawyer in Chicago. He wrote undistinguished poetry and plays before publishing Spoon River Anthology (1915), his major work. Its 245 free-verse epitaphs in the form of monologues are spoken from the grave by the former inhabitants of a fictitious small town, who tell of their bitter, unfulfilled lives in its dreary confines.

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(born Aug. 23, 1869, Garnett, Kan., U.S.—died March 5, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa.) U.S. poet and novelist. He grew up on his grandfather's farm and became a lawyer in Chicago. He wrote undistinguished poetry and plays before publishing Spoon River Anthology (1915), his major work. Its 245 free-verse epitaphs in the form of monologues are spoken from the grave by the former inhabitants of a fictitious small town, who tell of their bitter, unfulfilled lives in its dreary confines.

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Forbes Ernest Phillipson-Masters (born 14 November 1955) was an English footballer who played in central defence.

Phillipson-Masters originally signed with Southampton as an apprentice goalkeeper in August 1972, but was given a free transfer two years later by Lawrie McMenemy. John McGrath, then Saints` youth team coach, persuaded Forbes to try his luck in the centre-half position. The conversion was successful, and, after playing nine times for the Saints first team, Phillipson-Masters was sold to Plymouth Argyle for £50,000 in 1979, where he was to make over a hundred league appearances.

His career consisted of spells at Southampton (1973-1979), Exeter City (1976 - loan), Bournemouth (1977 - loan), Luton Town (1978 - loan), Plymouth Argyle (1979-1982), Bristol City (1982-1985), and Yeovil Town. He then moved into non-League football management in the Dorset area, as well as being a painter and decorator.