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...weekly contributors" who earned most of their living somewhere else. Two of the sixteen are still with us as TIME'S two top editors, five have died. Quite a few of the others have gone on to fame elsewhere. Two have won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Archibald MacLeish and the late Stephen Vincent Benét. Publisher John Farrar was our first books editor, and Wells C. Root, our first cinema reporter, is now one of Hollywood's top flight scenarists...
...ranks. Colonel Warren J. Clear, of Genera MacArthur's staff, wept at the microphone when he told the firsthand story of the fighting on Bataan. Profane soldier-talk often sneaks into the prepared script. Because the Axis would like very much to know that General Sir Archibald Wavell, for instance, would be on the air from a certain place at the broadcast time, audiences never learn the show's personnel until...
Bears who celebrated last week on Berkeley's green, oak-groved hills above San Francisco Bay, found an alma mater with hundreds in uniform. In the sweeping, serene Hearst Greek Theater, they heard Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish draw a Paul Bunyanesque portrait of The American...
...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed that Britain has taken steps to offset the world-round impact of the U.S. Air Forces' Transport Commands-an operation which is solely for war, but is bound to blaze the way for U.S. commercial operations after the war. The R.A.F. has formed its own Transport Command to work with British Overseas Airways Corp., whose transport operations have been sadly crimped. The R.A.F.'s famed Ferry Command, which has been whisking bombers across the North Atlantic for almost two years and has lately spread to the South Atlantic, will be subordinated...
...year ago Thomas Mann was appointed consultant in German literature for the Library of Congress. As a member of the staff. Librarian Archibald MacLeish asked Mann to make a speech before a small group in Washington, suggested that he discuss his great, four-volume, just-finished masterwork Joseph and His Brothers. (The final volume, Joseph the Provider, is slated for publication this fall.) Author Mann was at first "startled and disconcerted." Would it not, he asked, "seem terribly presumptuous, vain and egocentric" to talk of a mere novel in a time of world war? That would depend, he decided...