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...literary buzzards have circled above the place of apparent extinction. Archibald MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head...
...dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery was "the most precious part of [Delacroix's] soul, the part devoted entirely to painting his dreams and to the cult...
Homemade Bakery. Recently, when business outgrew the garage, Mrs. Rudkin resolved her trouble in characteristic fashion. She sketched her idea of an ideal baking operation, complete with sloping tables for hand-kneading the bread. Then she drew a floor plan to house it. When she handed it to the architect, she warned him: You do the outside and the stairways, but don't change my plans." Last week Mrs. Rudkin and her 160 employees roudly moved into their new $625,000 plant. A U-shaped concrete building, it has a capacity of 4,000 loaves an hour. With...
...Lynchburg, Va. A blue-clad rider hauled him up into the saddle and asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
West Point and Annapolis long ago outgrew competition from civilian colleges.* Last week the two service academies looked like the best basketballers in the land. Other teams had risen only to fall; they alone went on unbeaten...