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...sold to a sponsor), School of the Air gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
...Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize poet: "War could be beautiful to Homer and Shakespeare because it could be tragic. It has ceased to be that. ... I suspect any war poet now who says he knows what the current calamity means-including the one who says it means nothing...
...satisfy it, the Government and the Council on Books in Wartime embarked early in 1943 on a mass production publishing venture. Sponsored and paid for (average cost: 6? a volume) by the Army and Navy, Editions for the Armed Services has turned out, under the management of Philip Van Doren Stern, over 40 million copies of 500 books. To fit existing presses as well as G.I. pockets, the books are made in two sizes: half that of a standard digest-size magazine, and half that of a pulp magazine. Bound like pocket bird guides, they are printed in double columns...
Divorced. Carl Van Doren, 59, crop-haired Manhattan literary critic (Mutiny in January, Benjamin Franklin); by his second wife, Jean Wright Gorman Van Doren, 44; after six years of childless marriage; in Reno...
...confused with Manhattan Litterateurs Mark Van Doren (Carl's brother), Irita Van Doren (Carl's first wife...