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TIME has created a furor in our office . . . Mr. Menotti is a real cover...
When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...
...little abashed and puzzled by all the furor, House members seemed to think that the amendments could probably be toned down a little. To that the New York Times sounded a fervent aye. Certainly everybody wanted Government agencies to pick people of sound character and good judgment. But taking a hard look at the whole problem of insuring security without bringing on sterility, the Times editorialized...
...button peace," he remarked in ducking a question on international atomic controls. He described the atom bomb as "a gadget built up in the public mind to much more than its military value," although he made no bones about it being a terrible weapon, and suggested that the present furor--particularly over the McMahon proposals--might be a similar search for "a gadget for peace." He deplored the tendency for some people "who get attention" to overplay the strength of the atom as a weapon...
Dilettanti Arise. After a year at the London School of Economics, social purpose was reborn in Field. Filled with his new learning, he created a furor by denouncing capitalism, the monopoly of wealth, the "narrow-mindedness of the wealthy students at Harvard." He formally joined Norman Thomas' Socialist Party and married sympathetic Elizabeth G. Brown of Duluth. They went off to study political movements in Communist Russia and the Far East...