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Criticized on the grounds that he "writes to himself" in his war poetry, Ciardi frankly admits it. "Poetry has to deal with the immediate," he says, defending his method with the argument that every serviceman was thinking of the same things in personal terms. "There was more collective consciousness in the Army than in any other group," and yet, he admits a little ruefully, "you still can't reach across to anybody else...
National organization of a Veterans Against MacArthur movement under the leadership of Paul Berger, a 24-year-old serviceman in Chicago, has shaped up rapidly in the past 24 hours, with official chapters of the VAM in formation locally at Boston University and M.I.T...
...bride a green taffeta dress and thereby got an invitation to a tea party, to London as its special correspondent. (But it was the New York Herald Tribune's Don Cook who "doctored" her stories. She got homesick, flew home the day before the wedding.) One wire serviceman (U.P.'s Robert Muesel) filed a 2,400-word "past tense" account of the wedding in advance, padded out from the program. Then he sat in the Abbey checking his story and saved valuable time by merely radioing a release to New York...
...State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the wheel of an open convertible, he drove back to Washington at a steady 50-mile clip (several times hitting 65 on the straightaway). At Memorial Bridge a Secret Serviceman took over and Harry Truman rode soberly on to the White House, to pick up his cudgels...
...addition to his play last year, Mariaschin boasts a varied basketball background, both as a civilian and as a serviceman. He has played at both Bloomsberg and Syracuse in the college leagues, and can also claim earlier experience at brooklyn's Lafayette High School...