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Last week Britain's Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, set out from Hong Kong to have a talk with Chiang Kaishek. That is not an easy thing to do nowadays. Sir Archibald had to hire an airplane, fly five or six hundred miles inland over a maze of twisting rivers and search out the Generalissimo "somewhere in Hunan Province...
When proper Sir Archibald arrived at Shanghai he would say no more than that he had found Chiang "well-very fit and optimistic-serenely confident of ultimate victory." What he did not say-and what officials in China's new capital at Chung-king did say-was that the fit Generalissimo had just talked to the proper Ambassador more plainly than any big Chinese had ever talked to a big Britisher...
...reading is under the auspices of the Morris Grey Poetry Fund which has already presented Archibald MacLeish this year. The fund consists of ten thousand dollars, "the income of which is to be applied to the giving of occasional talks or lectures on modern poetry...
...Yale ('15) he was editor of the rowdy Record while his classmate Archibald MacLeish conducted the more pontifical Literary Magazine. His Great American Bandwagon (1928) is a whimsical review of U. S. eccentricities, from ukuleles to kewpie dolls. Ever one to enjoy making the best of a bad situation, Mr. Merz likes to recall that he met his wife after hitting her with a golf ball...
...effort to give them all the advantages that the University and Boston can offer, the Fellows have been provided with free memberships in the Faculty Club and guest memberships in the Harvard Club of Boston. In addition, Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism has arranged 30 dinners throughout the year at which noted journalists will speak on off the record aspects of their profession...