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> Re: Michael Healy's suggestion that "it might be amusing to count up > the number of references to RK, both acknowledged and otherwise, in > the daily press - more than one a week is my guess." It's several mentions of his name a day, in fact. Once can track this with the very useful Google alerts (www.google.com/alerts), which covers many English newspapers around the world. I did this for a while, and learned that a) There's a saloon in Lousiville, Ky. called The Rudyard Kipling. b) RK is still mentioned frequently in the English-language press in India. c) Many journalists everywhere know the first lines of The Ballad of East and West, but not the last lines. d) Many locally-prominent people/war veterans/others who merit obituary notices considered If to be a favourite poem. e) Mr. Healy's "more than one a week" is roughly correct when it comes to literary, or otherwise non-trivial, references to RK. Most of these invocations of his name turn up in the British quality press. I don't know how one would track usage of Kipling phrases or titles or other un-acknowledged references. Brian Kappler Montreal.