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...Detroit and in the Communist Daily Worker. Oblivious to their neglected Ford organization drive, to the disruption sure to accompany further war, the feudists this week proceeded toward a special convention and an attempt by the ousted rebels to oust Homer Martin. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis grimly followed their farrago, continued to consider whether he could & should step in, put some one else in Homer Martin's chair...
Cavalcade-not the first, but the second British magazine to lift TIME'S form and formula-has devoted a large part of its two years in business to falling between a succession of journalistic stools. Last week currency was given to the most recent and most awkward farrago in Cavalcade's career...
...asked young Irish Poet Louis MacNeice to come along. For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels. When their time was up they had written a number of letters in prose and verse, collected a farrago of literate jottings about Iceland's history, culture, landscape, people. These, illustrated by photographs and stitched loosely together into a book, give an entertaining view of Iceland from the outside, a more significant inside view of Poets Auden and MacNeice...
...reputation is not comparable with his brothers', Theodore and Llewellyn, comforts himself with the statement that his writing is "simply so much propaganda ... for my philosophy of life." What that philosophy is he has never, in his 62 years, been able to make clear. But occasionally his cumbersome farrago is punctuated with flashes of insight: "We are all in secret fighting for our sanity...
Still reeling from a bludgeoning at the hands of Dr. Flexner, the chimerical farrago which for journalistic purposes is the "American University" has now been assaulted with other weapons. In the first number of "The American Scholar," Dr. John Erskine criticizes Universities in a way which strikes much nearer home for Harvard at least then did Dr. Flexner's attacks...