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Math 1b, with 402 students, 66 less than the number enrolled in Math 1a in September, occupies fourth place. Following Math 1b in popularity, Humanities 119, given by Columbia's Mark Van Doren, Visiting Professor of English, has an official enrollment...
Wednesday, February 20 CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Part I of a two-part series on the Supreme Court, including readings by Carl Sandburg, Mark Van Doren, Archibald Mac-Leish and Fredric March from landmark decisions...
Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...
...were Mark Van Doren and Archibald MacLeish, and they talked of retirement, death, poetry, and life. Van Doren said he sometimes "finds it nice to do nothing at all;" a feeling he will share with MacLeish, who was, in his words, "retired for senility" a few weeks ago from his position of Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard...
...Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS is experimenting with a new technique in this program, one of a four-part series. The two men ramble around Mac-Leish's farm at Conway, Mass., and talk about anything that comes into their poetic brains-without the aid (or interference) of a network commentator...