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...Archivist of the U.S. (1934-41); in Durham, N.C. A University of North Carolina history professor and a onetime Archivist of the State of North Carolina, Connor was already an old hand at old documents when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to the task of assembling in Washington's brand-new Archives Building a mountain of scattered records...
...some of the machines could not. The'so-called all-weather fighter planes - U.S. F-80s and Canadian Vampires-functioned well enough mechanically but were frequently grounded by Arctic snow flurries and overcast. The U.S. Army's snow vehicle, the Weasel, was a dismaying failure; of 100 brand-new Weasels put into action, nearly half broke down in the first five days. The Canadian Army's counterpart, the Penguin, stood up better but was too bulky to maneuver among the pines off the road. Before Sweetbriar was half over, observers were recommending that the Allied armies study...
Five hours after the air compromise was announced, U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt was threshing over a brand-new problem in Ottawa with ruddy-faced Arnold Heeney, Canada's Under Secretary of State for External Affairs. The new dispute centered around the proposal to ship 100 million bushels of wheat to Western Germany and Japan this year under the 38-nation International Wheat Agreement. Since the grain will be paid for in U.S. dollars, the U.S. took the view that it should be U.S. wheat, of which there is a surplus. Canadian spokesmen argued that the object...
After Montgomery Ward & Co.'s terrible-tempered Sewell Avery cleaned out all his executives last April, he appointed eight brand-new vice presidents whom he called "capable, high-grade men . . . who have proven themselves." Then he pronounced himself "completely satisfied." Last week, no longer satisfied, Chairman...
Prognosticators searching among the unknown contributors for tomorrow's literary white-haired boy will find New Directions' radar scope pretty murky. Most of the brand-new writers in N.D. XI stick to well-worn avant-garde trails, either rediscover a flabby surrealism("The rabbits jumped on the bed and sat in a furry row, staring") or, like Harvard Student John Hawkes, lose their story in a messy Joycean montage of elliptical dialogue and overfertilized imagery. A deadening number of these interior probings take place on college campuses, where they should have been published...