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...PLAYHOUSE. An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts. A historical drama by Archibald MacLeish commemorating the bicentennial of his New Eng land home town. Repeat...
...beginning of the Depression. In its early years, it was a hotbed of contentious comment. "We made the discovery," said Luce, "that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers." One of the major contributors to FORTUNE was a poet, Archibald MacLeish. "My essential education as an American began on FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed, harbored at least one genuine reactionary. Described by Luce...
Mugwump and Liberal. This was too much for FORTUNE'S liberals. Wrote a thoroughly angered MacLeish in a memo: "I feel that TIME has never presented the war in Spain for what it was-an inexcusable and unjustifiable act of aggression by reactionary forces against a popular government." Retorted a disdainful Goldsborough: "On the side of Franco are men of property, men of God and men of the sword. In so describing them, I presume that I condemn them to particularly nether depths, but what position do you suppose these sort of men (irrespective of nationality) occupy...
Soon after, however, Ingersoll as well as Goldsborough left the company. MacLeish had already resigned-taking a parting shot, albeit friendly, at Luce: "It's very hard to be as successful as you have been and still keep your belief in the desperate necessity for fundamental change. I think you have been an honorable journalist. You would have been happier in a fight, though...
...FESTIVAL. "Carl Sandburg Remembered" includes eulogies by President Johnson and Poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren and recordings by the late great poet himself...