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Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, after three months of exhibition in the U.S. and Canada, was sold last week to the highest bidder: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, which offered 100,000 Canadian dollars.
Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided...
Across the fertile countenance of the nation, the farmer bent his back in the June sun and worked the land. He labored wherever the earth lay open, the rain fell and the sun shone-from the lumpy flats of Aroostook County, Me., where the summer potatoes germinated in their dirt...
Six days before last week's Japanese elections, the Communist Party held a rally in Tokyo's Imperial Plaza. In the crowd were U.S. soldiers, some of them Counter Intelligence Corps agents sent as observers. While a Communist speaker ranted against U.S. occupation, inflamed Communists in the audience...
But Pound's essay is more than the customary diatribe by a self-exiled literary rebel against America's cultural bourgeoisie. Years before he turned renegade to his nation to back Fascism, Pound had a profound sense of America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally...