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Last week Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their commencements a flash of homely Americanism, a flash just bright enough to illumine the shadow of European affairs that all but blacked out their gay, traditional ceremonies...
...Yale occurred the first of two extraordinary events in Sandburg's extraordinary week. There Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., rising to speak to alumni, seized the occasion to speak to the whole nation. Lord Lothian's subject was the British fleet...
...were awarded to: Dirt-Novelist John Steinbeck for his Okie novel, The Grapes of Wrath; Playwright William Saroyan (who said he didn't want the prize) for The Time of Your Life, which last week also captured the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; Historian Carl Sandburg, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund Duffy, New York World...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...
...books have been given since 1712. Among the awards this year were Professor Kitredge's edition of Shakspere; Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard"; Spengler's "Decline of the West"; Craven's "Art Masterpieces"; and Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years...