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News of his death came as a shock to most big-game hunters. Klein had tracked for many of them - F. Trubee Davison, Paul Rainey, Archibald Harrison, the Aga Khan, Lady MacKenzie, Philip Plant. In over 30 years of following game trails, he captured or killed thousands of birds, snakes and beasts, from diminutive dik-diks to giant bull elephants. He stopped counting his lions in 1928, when the British limited each hunter to three kills a year. By that time he had bagged...
...after Welles's speech, another old friend of the President spoke his forebodings about U.S. foreign policy. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, addressing the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City: "The peace we seem to be making will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping-a peace, in brief, of factual situations, a peace without moral purpose or human intent, a peace of dicker and trade about the facts of commerce, the facts of banking, the facts of transportation, which will lead us where the treaties made...
...Archibald MacLeish, poet laureate Librarian of Congress, had words for the nation (see U.S. AT WAR) and four words for four medal-getting word men: "Freedom, liberty, democracy, equality . . . are revolutionary words always. . . ." The American Academy of Arts and Letters' four medal-getting revolutionaries...
...London Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, reported that during the war 26,000 German and Italian planes had been shot down in combat, not counting the Russian front. In the very week of Sir Archibald's report, the western Allies flew an estimated 30,000 sorties over Europe; on the lightest day of that week, 3.600 U.S. and British planes were...
...Other members of the Unit: David S. Ingalls, the Navy's No. 1 ace and later U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, now in the Pacific; Kenneth MacLeish, whose death in battle against eight German fighters was memorialized by brother Archibald MacLeish; F. Trubee Davison, now a colonel in the Army Air Forces; Artemus L. Gates, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary...