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...interested, sometime you might read the novels of Sir John Buchan, particularly The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Macnab, or Huntingtower. Notice something. The characters never have any colds. Not Sir Edward Leithen, nor Sir Archibald Roylance, nor Mr. McCunn (the middle-aged wholesale grocer from Glasgow), nor Fish Benjie, nor Mrs. Morran, nor any of the barefoot boys from Glasgow who sing Communist songs to the old Scots tunes. These novels were written in the not so dim and distant 20's. The characters were out in the weather a great deal. Some of the days were beautiful, but most...
...Archibald MacLeish: His "delicate lyric gift" resulted in smoothly beautiful and simple early poems. But he soon "began to make overpowering demands upon this limited and specific talent . . . much of MacLeish's later work is the public speech of an authoritative public figure who is controlling the responses of a mass audience ... It is almost more conscious of the impressiveness of what it says than of what it says...
Harvard did not do as well in other sailing action over the weekend. Competing is four-foot seas at, Kings Point, R.I. Mike Lehmann John Archibald, and Dave Gauts found themselves in eighth place at the end of the first day of the Nevis Trophy races. On Sunday the team seemed to be more sure of themselves, but Saturday's poor showing was to much to overcome, and Harvard finished fifth...
Among the works being sold are manuscripts of Archibald MacLeish and William Alfred, paintings by Jack Wolfe and Carl Nelson, and prints by Ben Shahn and Antonio Frasconi. Of particular interest are the manuscripts of Donald Hall and May Sarton, which contain poetry both in final and working drafts...
...Everyone knows that Robert F. Kennedy was the attorney for the McClellan Committee and that his brother, John F. Kennedy--with the aid of Archibald Cox, now solicitor general, drew up the original labor bill that was the father of the Landrum-Griffin Bill...