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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...
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...
...Adams family of Massachusetts . . . owns a priceless draft of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in his own hand. Recently Archibald MacLeish wrote, asking if he could borrow it for display in the Library of Congress. . . . He got no reply. So he wrote again, saying he would be glad to send an armed guard for it. Still no reply. MacLeish wrote a third time, saying he would not only send an armed squadron but would insure the document for $100,000. This likewise went unanswered. MacLeish gave up. . . . [Then] he received a penny postcard. It advised him that...
George Dixon, for the umpteenth time, was telling some 4,000,000 readers a typical tarradiddle. Actually the Adams papers are owned and managed by the Adams Manuscript Trust. MacLeish negotiated for the loan of the Declaration through the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made...