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...Other members of the Unit: David S. Ingalls, the Navy's No. 1 ace and later U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, now in the Pacific; Kenneth MacLeish, whose death in battle against eight German fighters was memorialized by brother Archibald MacLeish; F. Trubee Davison, now a colonel in the Army Air Forces; Artemus L. Gates, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary...
...State Department almost made a gaffe last week. Five scholarly gentlemen were about to fly to London as U.S. delegates to an Allied conference on postwar education. They were: Arkansas Congressman James William Fulbright, former president of the University of Arkansas; Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish; U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker; the State Department's Grayson Neikirk Kefauver; and Ralph Edmond Turner...
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...
...MacLeish's worthy purpose, however, has yet to be eloquently realized. His scripts which have a certain eloquence, nevertheless seem overloaded with conversation, make little use of advanced, dramatic radio techniques, are dignified and resonant rather than compelling...