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...Edwin Muir, Scottish author and poet, announced Saturday in Edinburgh that he has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton lecturer on poetry for next year...
Warden of Newbattle Abbey College, Edinburgh, Muir will give a series of lectures here on some general aspect of literature. He will probably also teach a course in the humanities...
...Muir has written a number of books, including "The Marionette," "The Three Brothers," and "Poor Tom," and several volumes of poetry and literary criticism. In collaboration with his wife he has also translated some of the works of Franz Kafka...
Aside from physical discomforts, Poonsters wanted a new building because they felt that more congenial surroundings would improve their writing. Though Lampoon humor had not yet become jaded, President Muir complained that a bleak atmosphere discouraged the editors. The Lampoon, he wrote during a campaign for donations, "tends to consist of one man who gets the paper out alone...
...Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...