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Evasive though it was on many subjects, Luchese's testimony nonetheless produced some surprising revelations. By his own statement, his acquaintances, social or otherwise, included Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...
LETTERS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (384 pp.)-Edited by Allan Ross Macdougall-Harper...
...before I permitted them to be published, or must be made, if made at all, someday by me. Only I who know what I mean to say, and how I want to say it, am competent to deal with such matters." The letter was signed: Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...right to lecture her publisher. By putting into her poetry the heart she perpetually wore on her sleeve, she had become that rarest of things in U.S. literature: a best-selling poet. To most young moderns of the '20s and '30s, poetry meant simply Edna St. Vincent Millay. To jazz agers and Bohemians she became a symbol for living recklessly, hand-to-mouth and bed-to-bed. Critics who then spoke of her in the same breath with Shakespeare might like to take back a lot of what they said. But even the relentless weeding-out by time...
Forbidden Apples. Poet Millay, who died in 1950, liked to say she suffered from "Epistophobia," but her old friend, Allan Ross Macdougall, has found enough of her correspondence to make Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay a tender self-portrait...