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James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
...there is no doubt that the League was sold to the peoples of the world-and turned down by the U.S. Senate-largely on the basis of Article 16 of its Covenant, which clearly contemplates the prevention of war by the use of military force. The sorry failure of the League and its members ever to resort to force made the League a laughing stock long before World...
...WORLD-AND WELCOME TO IT- James Thurber - Harcourt, Brace...
...much reinforcement should reach Australia, and therefore how great to the Japanese the risk of attacking Australia would become, and therefore how right or wrong Dr. van Mook would prove to be-that decision rested in Washington. There, last week, the strategy makers weighed the war zones of the world-and seemed to be leaning toward the land mass of Europe as the place for the A-1 priorities...
...anybody's lake last week. But 60 miles south of Sicily, 225 miles north of Tripoli, the spongy little island of Malta was definitely Britain's. Malta is the most heavily and frequently bombed stronghold of World War II-and therefore in the history of the world-and from the impatient Axis last week it got its heaviest raids...