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...extensive selection of the letters of this extraordinary man. The impressive range of correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges is a cohesive portrait...
...pass through the aid office--furnish him with years more of reflection on "how being here changes some people's lives." And occasionally circumstances allow him to continue the observation, through the expedient of a seat on the committees a that award the Sheldon, the knox, or the Luce. "You get a firsthand experience of the intensity of scholarly work--this incredibly esoteric stuff on the tsetse fly or whatever they a want to work...
...former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column. He also wishes "happy birthday" in print to entertainment figures, as in the March 10 greeting to former Studio Executive Newton ("Red") Jacobs, a leader in civic causes. That salutation was sadly underinformed. Jacobs died on Nov. 6, 1980. -By William A. Henry...
...everything-the paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most influential, and most lucrative, arbiter of fashion. In 1913 Nast launched Vanity Fair, a witty, literary monthly. He hired a succession of bright young women editors (Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Lawrenson, Millicent Fenwick, Marya Marines) and gave them carte blanche...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle/ Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed/ How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan/ The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Persico/ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling/ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner