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...Henry K. Beecher, associate in Anaesthesia at the Medical School, has been appointed to a professorship at the Medical School to fill the Dr. Henry Ishiah Dorr Chair of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia...
...Beecher. A great-great-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher is John Beecher, who last spring found himself so burned up about current doings that he had to let off his steam in a free-verse pamphlet. Privately printed, not copyrighted, and with no rights reserved, it is written in the great American tradition of plain speech, is fittingly* titled "And I Will Be Heard...
...first half of Beecher's poem is made up of a series of portrait-sketches of his ancestral relatives-the blacksmith Beechers whose guns were held at present-arms when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom Lincoln called "the little lady who made the great war"; Henry Ward Beecher, who, on being handed his diploma at Amherst, was told by the college's president, "Well, this is the last we shall hear of you, Mr. Beecher"; Thomas K. Beecher, who chose to be a small-town preacher...
Having thus established his historical identity, John Beecher sounds off on what he thinks of certain famous personages of his own times. What he says are things that probably a large majority of plain Americans have either themselves said, or are itching to say, about Henry Ford, Lindbergh, Hearst, John Lewis, William Green, Earl Browder and others. Beecher does not let his cons black out his pros in his protesting acceptance of the world as it is. But there is one world figure for whom he has absolutely no use: Hitler. "And I Will Be Heard" ends with a cordial...
...Beecher and Wheelwright are poets of vastly different stripes but of the same cloth. Each is a product, and a proponent, of the great, unfinished American Rebellion. Each is trying to make the living god jibe with brass tacks...