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There were also some noteworthy poet ry roundups: John Crowe Ransom's Selected Poems; W. H. Auden's Collected Poems; David Morton's Poems 1920-1945. Bolts of Melody, though it came pretty much from the bottom of Emily Dickinson's bureau drawer, was indispensable to those interested in one of the rarest and most mysterious of the 19th Century talents...
...Henry removed "the little giant" from his potent position as boss of Ford's labor & industrial relations. Then, in two days, he demoted or fired nearly a dozen Bennett-men. Mr. Bennett would continue as a director of the com pany, but from now on. said Young Hen ry, in unmistakable tones, everyone would be responsible ''directly...
Died. Paul Valéry, 73, famed French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière Marin, Varétés I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author - it is my kind of beauty...
Missing in Action. Count Antoine de Saint Exupéry, 44, best-selling French aviator-novelist (Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras); on a reconnaissance flight over Europe. Saint Exupery, veteran of over 13,000 flying hours, was grounded last March by a U.S. Army Air Forces officer because of age, was later put back into his plane by a decision of Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, flew some 15 flak-riddled missions in a P-38 before his disappearance...
Among Pop's pilots was the French flyer-novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Flight to Arras), a veteran of 13,000 flying hours. The physical strain of stratosphere flying finally proved too much for 44-year-old Saint-Exupéry. He tried gamely to keep on but finally had to give it up. It is a young man's racket...