A SONNET A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY--SO THEY SAY

Outdoing all other sonnet writers in volume, anyway Merrill Moore, Boston psychiatrist, WPA director, and teacher at the Harvard Medical School, is about to publish 1,000 of the 50,000 (50,000) sonnets he has composed in his 35 years.

Originally from Nashville, Dr. Moore writes ten to twelve of the fourteen line poems every day, including Sundays and holidays. He has a private medical practice, has written a number of long and scholarly medical papers, belongs among other associations to the Neurological Supper Club. He is also a semi-professional long distance swimmer.

And he has four children.