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Attending the conference were Attorney General Homer S. Cummings; Donald R. Richberg, chairman of the NRA; and Solicitor General Stanley Reed.
The cast, consisting of five Harvard men and four Radcliffe students, has been announced as follows: Wilbur L. Cummings, Jr. '37, Charles R. Moore '35, Howard E. Roman '36, Richard H. Nagles '37, John Briggs, 3d, Miss Dorothea MacMillan, Miss Sylvia Taylor, Miss Peggy Mast, and Miss Altmann.
Cummings may indeed get a pure text but if the present volume is any indication it will not be "pure" in the Brattle Street sense. With his usual acumen, he has already ensured against that. For his recipe for poetry is apparently a dash if wit, a sprinkle of imagery...
Personal satire is almost absent, though there is a terse and unkind quatrain about Ernest Hemingway, which is at the same time a parody of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life." Nor has Cummings forgotten his nursery rhymes:
Cummings is also bold enough to refer to Sally Rand's fan dance at the World's Fair in Chicago, but Cummings is somewhat less satirical than of yore, though, to be sure, he was never in the great tradition, since as a satirist he is unique in that he...