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Major Heflin, commanding officer at the Statistical School, handed out diplomas and Lt. William M. Sage, a member of the graduating class, countered by presenting the Faculty with several gifts from the departing students...
...this reviewer Robert Frost has never seemed the sage for which he has so frequently been taken. His best poems, ranking with any in contemporary American literature, have been those drawn directly from knowledge of the New England scene. In lyrics like "The Colt" or narratives such as "The Death of the Hired Man" there is an unalloyed completeness of sympathy which is lacking when the author turns to broader themes. Though pleasant in its occasional lyrics, too much of this book is composed of brief epigrammatic lessons for the young. From a poet of greater intellectual stature such preachments...
Most inopportune book of the month is The Dry Season, a slim, sage green volume of 17 poems by Malcolm Cowley, sometime literary editor of the New Republic, now chief information analyst of the Office of Facts and Figures. Congressman Martin Dies recently charged Cowley with having had "seventy-two connections . . . with the Communist Party and its front organizations...
Exceptional correspondent is U.P.'s Frank Hewlett (former acting Manila bureau chief). Whereas the others hitchhike, he sports a Chevrolet sedan with a small Filipino chauffeur named Hoolio. Grinning Hoolio has been nicknamed the "Sage of Bataan...
...President abolished SPAB, gave Nelson, as head of the War Production Board, final authority-authority greater than any U.S. citizen except the President himself has ever had, greater than that wielded by sage old Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I production tsar. For the first time under the New Deal, a top man was given power to hire & fire without a Presidential...