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...talent" was the best Hollywood has (James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Brennan, et al.) and the best radio voice in Washington (Franklin D. Roosevelt). Its writing, timing and direction (by Norman Corwin) were expert. It was produced under the wand of the Office of Facts & Figures, headed by Archibald MacLeish. Government, networks and artists collaborated...
...last week's ornamental banquet, presided over by CBS's silver-haired Standby Elmer Davis, two debts were implicitly acknowledged. One acknowledgment came from the Administration to the men who had made the urgent plight of Britain palpable to millions. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish to Ed Murrow: "You have destroyed . . . the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not realty done...
...American magazines translated into southern tongues. He also condemns the proponents of the American Century, whose ill-concealed imperialism turns against us the very people we most need for friends in any plan of American defense. We must appreciate the South American nations with the kindly insight of Archibald MacLeish, not with a Kipling's rapacious eagerness for the white man's burden. No better guide for such insight can be found than this well-balalnced volume...
...chief of OFF, Franklin Roosevelt picked his friend Poet Archibald MacLeish,* Librarian of Congress, who occasionally helps draft a White House speech. To help him ferret out his facts & figures, Director MacLeish will have blond, chub-cheeked Captain Robert Kintner, who gave up a lucrative Washington column (with Joseph Alsop, just resigned from the Navy) to take an Army commission, and rich, personable Lieut. Barry Bingham (son of the late Ambassador to Britain Robert Worth Bingham), who gave up his job as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a commission in the Navy...
...Last week a patriotic song, Freedom's Land (published by Mills Music Inc., with lyricist's name printed as "Archibold MacLeisch"), words by MacLeish, music by Composer Roy Harris, rode the CBS air waves. First verse...