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...years ago No. 1 weathermaker Carrier Corp. sold Alabama's Woodward Iron its first blast-furnace installation. Result, says Woodward, was up to a 20% increase in pig-iron output, a 13% saving in coke per ton of iron. A new Jones & Laughlin installation in Pennsylvania hiked output 16-18% with a 4% coke saving...
...James Laughlin IV is a sort of Lorenzo de' Medici. Scion of a steel mill family, he has centered his interest since graduating from Harvard in 1937 in sponsoring young, unknown poets and writers and giving them a chance to see their works in print. For some four years his annual anthology, "New Directions in Prose and Poetry," has contained some of the more interesting, if startling, contributions to modern literature. No ordinary publisher would accept them, for chain poems and their ilk are not designed as money makers. Laughlin can afford, if necessary, to take a loss...
Until the vacation the Poetry Room, that little are Classics are another of his experiments, a series of inexpensive reprints of modern works which Laughlin considers of lasting value. Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Andre Gide are among the names included or planned for inclusion. A third series, The Makers of Modern Literature, is composed of what Laughlin terms "critical guidebooks" to the great modern authors--Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Lorca, Baudelaire, and a list of on display some of the products of New Directions Books from the years of its infancy to its present flourishing...
...number of Harvard names included in the catalogue of Laughlin foster children and in the exhibit is gratifyingly large. Poets of the Month have included Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English; Harry Brown, roughly '40, whose contributions still appear spasmodically in the Advocate although he himself is in the army; Dudley Fitts '25, until this year a master at the Choate School; Delmore Schwartz, Briggs-Copeland instructor in English Composition; and John Wheelwright '21. Harry Levin's study of James Joyce is about to come off the press, and the display includes a letter from Joyce to Laughlin praising...
...poetry on the docket for next spring. Schwartz has one full-size book already published and two more planned in the near future. Perhaps a connection with Harvard might even be traced to New Directions' prize eccentric, Henry Miller, who contributed a story from Paris to the Advocate when Laughlin was at the head of the magazine. The immediate result of Miller's contribution was the banning of the issue...