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Writing in the Atlantic Monthly in May, 1941, way back when, Archibald MacLeish pointed to the dangers facing American higher education, using the University as an example: "Harvard, for all its history, is endangered as are other universities by a European political revolution which attempts to substitute propaganda for science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...
Last week in Manhattan, scholarly Archibald MacLeish, ex-assistant Secretary of State, pointed the moral. When the press had finished with Sir Frederick, MacLeish said, "the sum total effect was a lie and a disastrous and evil...
...sponsor), School of the Air gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
...starter, out went three top members of the Stettinius team: mild, grey Under Secretary Joseph Clark Grew and Assistant Secretaries Archibald MacLeish and Julius C. Holmes. No tears were shed by those who thought Joe Grew lacked the drive and imagination for his job. Most Washingtonians agreed that MacLeish was not happily placed as the department's publicist, and few knew precisely what Julius Holmes had done (he was supposed to streamline the creaky department...
Married. Mary Hillard MacLeish, 21, schoolteacher daughter of Poet Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State and ex-Librarian of Congress; and Navy Ensign Karl Grimm, 22; in Alexandria...