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...20th Century needed a poet (at least) to explain it to itself, and a good place for a 20th Century poet to be born was St. Louis, Mo. Early, Thomas Stearns Eliot left this American heartland to strengthen at Harvard his ancestral New England roots. His output there was conventional verse, but his intake was metaphysics, logic, science and heavy drafts of European and Oriental culture...
This week Dr. Will has been busy with some psychiatric promotion on his home grounds in Topeka: a meeting of psychiatrists and interested laymen to discuss a topic full of heavy psychiatric overtones: "Our Children in the Atomic Age." Thanks to the Menninger family, Topeka, in the U.S. heartland, is a world center of modern psychiatry. It is the only city in the U.S. where psychiatrists outnumber all other kinds of doctors; it is the largest training center for psychiatrists in the world; it trains 15% of all the psychiatrists now being trained in the U.S. Topeka is the home...
...York is the fountain-spout of U.S. culture, the intellectual gateway to England and Europe, a pump from which ideas-both good & bad-flood out over the world. It is a citadel of opera and art; its 32 legitimate theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...years, with driving energy, grey, balding Dr. Fanstone, missionary for the Evangelical Union of South America, has been tending the ills of the people of the great Brazilian heartland state of Goiaz. Today, his gleaming, 130-bed hospital is one of the show places of the booming frontier capital of Anapolis, 875 miles northwest of Rio. But 58-year-old Dr. Jim can remember when he did appendectomies in his own kitchen...
...save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust us ... arm us and we shall fight the Communist bandits...