Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the impetus of war, Herter went to Washington between legislative sessions to work for his old friend Archibald MacLeish, in the Office of Facts & Figures. But Franklin Roosevelt's wartime administration by personal fiat outraged Herter's constitutional sensibilities, and he returned to Boston to seek a job that would enable him to appear on the national scene as a Republican critic. With the help of a fortuitous gerrymander, he got elected to Congress by a slim 2,900 votes. In 1944 his plurality rose to 20,000 votes...
Literary Greats (Tues. 8:45 p.m., ABC). Poets Dylan Thomas and Archibald MacLeish read from their own works...
...Archibald MacLeish, for his Collected Poems, 1917-1952, his second Pulitzer. (His first, in 1933, was for Conquistador.) The Pulitzer committee gave no award for music...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He last was honored...
Earlier this year, MacLeish won the National Book Award for the same collection of poems...