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Accepted for the privilege of practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court: Poet-Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish (LL.B., Harvard...
...texts include such original documents as the Resolves of the First Continental Congress and John Dickinson's Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Unusually sophisticated for undergraduates, it requires students to read such authors as French Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, British Socialist Harold Laski, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Machiavelli...
...Paul Smith wrote a sizzling letter of correction to the New York Daily News's Washington Correspondent John O'Donnell. He was sore at O'Donnell's waspish cracks at OWI's proposed budget and his ribbing Archibald MacLeish about an OWI dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel (TIME, Oct. 5). "You're nuts, John," wrote Paul. "Mr. MacLeish had nothing to do with the dinner check. It's nobody's damned business. I paid it. The dinner was $7.50 a plate-not $6 as reported. The total was $369.55." Last...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
...Little and Too Late." It is hard to believe that students here are less concerned about the war than Princetonians or Elis, but unfortunately, that must be considered a part of the story. There is no need to go into either the Economics A nor the Archibald MacLeish arguments for the purchase of government securities. They are well known and convincing enough to all. Everyone from the announcers for the soap operas to the roving official propagandists for the Treasury Department are dinning them in America's ears morning, noon, and night. Still Harvard men remain aloof, and ignore what...