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Seated for a year in the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (vacant since 1941) was Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Historian (Ode to the Confederate Dead) Allen John Orley Tate. His duties: the care and feeding of the poetry collection...
Richard Le Baron Goodwin, Nathan Clarence Greer, Goodwin Warner Harding, Norman John Hayes, James Sloane Higgins, Peter Iselin, Daniel Thomas Kelly, Jr., Joseph Michael Leahey, Walter Jay Lear, Alfred Dix Leeson, Charles Henry McCroskey, John Donald MacKinnon, Jr., William Lindsay Mosby, Kenneth Matthew Tate Munzert, Thompson Decker Orr, John Adams Paine, Jr., Cortlandt Parker, Jr., Parker de Sales Pitts, David Elliott Place, Frank Harrison Poole...
...Pretty Susan Tate used to live in Washington, D.C. Now she is attached to the Moresby Hospital in New Guinea, is used to being proposed to three times a week. Her job is less adventuresome than Montgomery's-to cheer the wounded, write letters home, fulfill odd requests. One request: to cable $65.50 worth of unbroken I love you I love you I love you's to a soldier's girl back in the States...
Belt of Kindness. Behind Tiny Montgomery and Susan Tate stands an organization that has put a belt of mercy around the world. In the last three years the Red Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...
Packages. It was a good year for anthologies, a better one still for popular dictionaries. American Harvest ($3.50), edited by Allen Tate and John Peale Bishop, proved that many U.S. contemporaries have achieved a broad and respect able mastery of literature's one sure preservative: form. In properly honoring formal accomplishment, the editors were inclined to undervalue literary vitality. A Treasury of the Familiar ($5), edited by Ralph L. Woods, usefully disregarded taste and value in favor of collating hundreds of literary tags, good, bad & in different, which lie, on the literate tongue, just between tantalizing half-memory...