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...legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...
...Negro problem, An American Dilemma, won high critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless. But 1944 also witnessed the emergence of a new popular poet of high quality. Russell Davenport's My Country, a simple, eloquent, sometimes patriotically overcharged paean to American destiny. ran up the astonishing (for poetry) printing total of 30,000 copies...
...secret plan to be in Paris on the 26th anniversary of Armistice Day had leaked to all & sundry. But the Prime Minister brushed aside fears for his life. Dressed in an Air Marshal's blue uniform, he rode with General Charles de Gaulle through shouting crowds, laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's monument, bowed in silence at Marshal Foch's tomb, made a speech (in original Churchill French) to the shouting Parisians. High point: "We have had differences in the recent troubled years, but I am sure you should all rally around him [General...
...wonders in Moscow whether Broadway has a firm grip on its laurel wreath. New York's theater still has, in my opinion, a slight edge on Moscow's-in scope, in splendor of production, in entertainment value, perhaps even in acting and in art. But at its present rate Moscow will soon be far ahead on all counts...
...June 1943 revolution; after long illness; in Buenos Aires. Slight, sardonic Castillo ("The Fox") became Acting President when failing eye sight forced the late, liberal Roberto Ortiz' retirement. The Fox instituted Argentina's policy of "prudent neutrality." At his wake last week was a yard-high floral wreath inscribed: "From the Japanese Embassy...