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...Eliot had already published three plays, but the Nobel Prizewinning poet and critic has always been more at home with his publishers than with theater people. The Rock (1934), Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Family Reunion (1939) all got into print without the test of a stage tryout-a process which prompts most dramatists to fresh visions and revisions...
Retired Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, once something of a menace in Pacific waters himself, showed even less respect for his colleague, the atom bomb. "I don't think the people on the East Coast . . . quite realize what went on in the Pacific," the Bull told a reunion dinner of the Greenwich, Conn. "Old Twelfth" Artillery. "I don't think we had more than 500,000 or 750,000 men [out there, but] with those 750,000 we contained somewhere between two and three million Japanese, and notwithstanding the dropping of the atomic bomb-and that...
...those of us who have attended Bread Loaf School about a mile up the road from Homer Noble Farm, the article and picture served as a sort of reunion with both that lovely mountain-girt country and the remarkable Robert Frost . . . My friends and fellow students of other years at Bread Loaf will long remember his puckish wit and astounding erudition on any subject. An afternoon talk with Frost in his tiny cabin set up the hillside from the Noble house, his shepherd dog Gillie lying by the fire and appearing to listen as his master talks of a variety...
From the moment he rode into Little Rock and joined the boys, Harry Truman was at his handshaking, backslapping best. If there was anything he liked as much as winning elections and playing poker, this was it-the annual reunion of the 35th Division and its famous offspring, Captain Harry's hell-raising Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F...
President Truman (Sat. 4:30 p.m., Mutual), in a major speech from the Little Rock, Ark. annual reunion of the 35th Division...