Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week The Pilgrims landed and the situation was in hand. Their good ship Mayflower was brought to berth by the hand of Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, Pulitzer Prize poet, former FORTUNE editor. His American Story (NBC, Sat., 7 p.m., E.W.T.) had made the historic landfall in the eighth week after the series opened with the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. At this rate Librarian MacLeish's program might well go on for some time...
American Story was MacLeish's idea, and NBC's Inter-American University of the Air adopted it. A frankly educational venture, it is composed chiefly of quotations from the explorers and those who wrote about them in their time. This source material is the core of MacLeish's purpose. He wanted the average, unscholarly American to hear the original accounts of the men who were there, or close...
...country, the climate, the enemy. There is no refreshment for the healthy nor relief for the sick. A vast unhospitable desert, unsafe and treacherous, surrounds them, where victories are not decisive but defeats are ruinous; and simple death is the least misfortune which can happen to them." Because Librarian MacLeish conceived American Story as the account of the settlement of America, North and South, his chronicle joins the two continents. Last week, for instance, he gave Governor William Bradford's record of the founding of Plymouth and Pedro de Valdivia's record of the establishment of Santiago, Chile...
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress...
...winter with audiences from 1,800 to 3,500. Cost: 15 programs for $5. Audiences are about half Jewish, half Gentile. Slight, greying Director Schwartz still runs the Forum, has made it pay its way for the past 20 years. This year's program includes: Louis Fischer, Archibald MacLeish. Last week Walter Duranty spoke; the week before, Will Durant. Asked one of Sinai's members: "When do we have Jimmy Durante...