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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devoto, well-known author and critic, is at present conducting the "Easy Chair" feature of Harper's Magazine. Among his books are The Year of Decision: 1846" and "Mark Twain's America...
...only other time that a homer produced the one run in a World Series game was in 1923. Present Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit it while playing for the New York Giants, and it landed in almost exactly the same spot in the Yankee Stadium as Henrich...
...addition, Meyer, ex-president of the United World Federalists and of the AVC, said the UN must have a new system of representation instead of the present one-delegate-to-a-nation system, a new veto-less executive cabinet to replace the Security Council, a new judiciary system which can judge individual responsibility instead of national, and revised international police and trusteeship...
...future at Harvard is in the hands of the present delegation. Unless they complete this program as planned, they cannot count on endless future student support...
...certainly left-wing and just as certainly not a communist, a distinction which a number of people can't be bothered to make nowadays. In public speeches I have often heard him condemn the present dictatorship in Russia; I have also read an article in which he condemns the Atlantic Pact (International Journal, April '49; see also "Correspondence" in the July number.) He steers difficult course quite honestly and openly. To the right wing he's a commie; to the commies he's a "social fascist," whatever that means. To me, and, I should think, to most people he would...