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...Barr & colleagues combed a list of 300 critics, eventually chose as the program's regulars Princeton's Novelist-Poet Allen Tate, Columbia's Pulitzer Prize Poet Mark Van Doren, and Huntington Cairns, assistant general counsel of the U. S. Treasury. Chairman and star performer was Mr. Cairns, who in his spare time speaks 15 languages, reads omnivorously, likes to play the abstruse Japanese game...
...want the prize) for The Time of Your Life, which last week also captured the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; Historian Carl Sandburg, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund Duffy, New York World Telegram Reporter S. Burton Heath, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial-writer Bart Howard...
WHEN a poet writes a novel, he is generally accorded the amused attention elicited by a fish out of water, and the proverbial shoemaker and his last are recalled. Mr. Van Doren at no time runs the danger of such unflattering parallels, for as the readers of "The Transients" can well testify, he has earned renown as a novelist commensurate with that which he has gained as a critic and poet. And he has earned it, as he does now, by writing novels which can stand by themselves as mature and expert productions. If one discerns the poet in this...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...
...subtle and sober poet, Mr. Van Doren has published one novel before. With considerable art Author Van Doren builds up an atmosphere of foreboding through a girl's terror of her horrible-tongued, death-ridden aunt, manages an accidental murder by the girl's sweetheart, a boy who works in a tourist camp, creates one or two unforgettable moments of suspense as the boy successfully hides his crime. But then he goes soft on the whole thing in a happy ending for which Aunt Esther conveniently turns out to have a heart of gold...