Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Leland Whitman Cutler, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair (Said he: "You have me, gentlemen."); Alexis Carrel (to inspect the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical heart in the Medicine and Public Health Building). Dedicating their nations' pavilions were Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu...
...wise: The second half of 1939 is expected to see Public Works expenditure decline from its 1938 volume of $880,000,000, offsetting by so much increased armament expenditures. If President Roosevelt decides to balance the budget for the 1940 elections the Government may actually put less money into the public economic pot after the rise in National Defense expenditures than before...
...life is a conflict between staying and going. Staying, for him, has meant standing by a poetic conscience such as has been given to few American poets-in complete disregard of any lesser audience. Going has meant playing the artist more than the man-and winning a public success which he never intended and partly distrusts. Frost did most of his staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay. But he has written many poems about going...
John Holmes, noted young Boston poet and critic, will give a reading from his own poems, open to the public without charge, at the Poetry Room of the Widener Library Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Admission is free, but tickets must be secured in advance from the Poetry Room...
...Sanctuary of Charles Darwin" will be the subject of a free, public lecture Wednesday evening by Dr. Benjamin Spector, professor of Anatomy, Tufts College, in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House, at 8 o'clock...