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Pulitzer Prize winner Archibald MacLeish gives a searching course in understanding and interpreting the art of poetry. Lectures take place in Burr A and the course is called Humanities 130a. Writer and critic Alfred Kazin will be the lecturer in English 171, Art and Expression in American Literature. Visiting Harvard for the year, Kazin's course will touch on history and philosophy as well as poetry and fiction. The first meeting will be in Hunt...
...competent, careful administrator and a hail-fellow Eisenhower advocate whose performance has confounded the armchair analysts and won wide approval among the voters. In Illinois, Bill Stratton, another dark horse, had accomplished things that Adlai Stevenson had failed to get done (TIME, July 13). And in Massachusetts, Christian Archibald Herter, 58, a lean, blond giant (6 ft. 4½ in.) with the searching eyes of an intellectual, the manners of a patrician and the pithy record of a politician, was causing a stir that rippled far beyond the shores of Massachusetts Bay. For Herter, Tom Dewey had a succinct appraisal...
...father, inherited old Christian's artistic inclinations, and he too settled in Paris. He married Adele McGinnis, a portrait painter, grew a Vandyke beard, and lived a carefree expatriate life in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. By the time his second son, Christian Archibald, was born in 1895, Albert Herter was a successful muralist, and young Chris came into a world of culture and comfort, if not luxury. German, learned from his governess, was his first language, and by the time he was ready for grammar school he was talking French and English as well...
...under the impetus of war, Herter went to Washington between legislative sessions to work for his old friend Archibald MacLeish, in the Office of Facts & Figures. But Franklin Roosevelt's wartime administration by personal fiat outraged Herter's constitutional sensibilities, and he returned to Boston to seek a job that would enable him to appear on the national scene as a Republican critic. With the help of a fortuitous gerrymander, he got elected to Congress by a slim 2,900 votes. In 1944 his plurality rose to 20,000 votes...
Five thousand excited Pondo and Gaika tribesmen put on their best feathers one day last week and poured into the Great Place, the Royal Kraal of Paramount Chief Archibald Sandile of Gaikaland. They gathered for the greatest social event in the history of the tribes: the wedding of Chief Sandile's son, Anthorpe, to Eunice, daughter of Paramount Chief Victor Poto Mdamase of Pondoland...