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...Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt a little queasy about his new left-liberal connections, but apparently hoped that...
...Marmalade Hypothesis. Contributor Paul F. Jennings started everything off by hailing an entirely new philosopher-"Pierre-Marie Ventre"-and a new philosophy: "Resistentialism." Wrote Satirist Jennings...
...replace Harriman at Commerce, Harry Truman once again exercised his penchant for mediocre appointees. He picked greying, bespectacled Charles Sawyer, 61-year-old Cincinnati lawyer, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime campaign contributor. Sawyer owns two Ohio radio stations, a newspaper, and is a director of the Cincinnati Reds. A perennial delegate to Democratic conventions, he was a national committeeman from 1936 to 1944, was once lieutenant governor of Ohio, in 1940 was the state's favorite-son candidate for President. Franklin Roosevelt appointed him ambassador to Belgium and minister to Luxemburg in 1944. He and Harry Truman are old friends...
Richard A. Gregg's short prize-winning poem, "To Icarus," stands well above the rest of Signature's writing in both scope and technical competence. Gregg, a past contributor to the magazine, has a gift for the manipulation of sound in poetic expression, which can be seen in such lines as "Proud parabolas upon the deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less...
...World War I, when the Herald temporarily turned into a weekly, its contributors included George Bernard Shaw and Arnold Bennett. Later H.G. Wells covered politics, and Edgar Wallace, crime. (Once, when Contributor G. K. Chesterton was searching for the editor's office, an employee observed: "You seem to have lost your way." Beamed Chesterton: "We have all lost...