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...magazine's most significant critical contribution to date has been a lively discussion on the work of Edwin Muir, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer. In his first issue, editor Ralph Maud charged that Muir's ineffective allegory and poetic diction produce a kind of poetic chastity. The main value of Maud's essay was that it evoked a highly articulate and sympathetic defense of Muir's poetry from Dr. Harold Martin, director of General Education...
...venerable New York Stock Exchange last week tipped its hat to youth. Three young Salt Lake City brokers, Edmund W. Dumke (29), Richard W. Muir (28) and Given A. Light Jr. (27), plunked down $85,000 and were approved for an exchange seat in Dumke's name. Thus, as far as the exchange could check, Muir, Dumke & Light were the youngest partnership, in terms of average age, ever admitted to Big Board membership...
...Hogle & Co., soon came to the conclusion that a stock salesman's salary and commissions were not enough. Dumke got in at the start of the uranium boom and bought options on 400 claims in Utah's Big Indian district, sold them at a fat profit. Muir also cleaned up in uranium; he bought a big block of Lisbon Uranium Co. stock at 20? a share, saw it rise to $7. Light played the Big Board with equal success...
...Muir and Dumke then formed a brokerage firm to trade mostly in penny uranium stocks. Early last year they brought Light and his cash into the partnership, whose net worth now is $250,000. Their goal when they launched Muir, Dumke & Light was to get a Big Board seat within five years. "Now that we have accomplished our aim so soon," says Dumke, "we have the longest potential experience of any partnership in the country...
...members of the committee choosing Muir were Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; John P. Coolige '35, associate professor of Fine Arts; Renato Poggioli, professor of Slavic; Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature; and Huntington Cairns, director of the National Gallery in. Washington...