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...firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet, 2) directors of the biggest 750 U. S. corporations (which own 52% of all corporate assets), 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicated clearly that they play an important part in management. The third installment of this Forum was the most detailed self-portrait for which U. S. business opinion has yet sat, revealed how it feels about: 1) New Deal policies, 2) price fixing, 3) defense and recovery. Findings...
...Writer-Naturalist Audubon's random writings. They are published in a large, handsome volume, largely and handsomely illustrated with 15 11½-by-15-inch color reproductions of birds and beasts by Audubon, one landscape by Audubon, one animal picture by Son John Woodhouse Audubon, one Audubon self-portrait...
Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the Washington office of Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations to the OPNAV he presented a belligerent self-portrait, to be used as official insignia for a new squadron of Navy bombers. Said the Admiral pridefully: "You have always been an inspiration to men in the Navy...
...John Wheelwright, who died (aged 43) last month. Harvard-man, architectural historian, Socialist, he was one of the most famous unheard-of poets in the U. S. Wheelwright's reputation is based on several books of crankily learned, lyrically didactic verse. Political Self-Portrait, like its predecessors, is full of what seem like the antics of an annunciatory angel dancing on the top of a Harvard education. But that does not prevent the book from bringing its reader hard up against an incandescent, no-fooling poetical and political faith...
Poetry and politics do not seem like strangers to each other in Wheelwright's book, because its author had no doubt whatever that political freedom and verbal truth are the interrelated objectives of every wide-awake, decent man on earth. Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin...