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Sitting in Buenos Aires' Villa de Voto jail, Labor Leader Cipriano Reyes (rhymes with Asia's) might have been excused for wondering just what had hit him. Most publicized catch in the abortive assassination plot against President Perón (TIME, Oct. 4), he was scheduled for trial next month with eleven other defendants. Meanwhile he was held in solitary; only his wife and daughter could visit his cell...
...idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard took the medal but uttered not a word. Among the new members who were to be formally inducted (but failed to show up): Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet W. H. Auden, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson and Critic Bernard De Voto...
...James A. Michener, for his novel Tales of the South Pacific; Tennessee Williams, for his play, A Streetcar Named Desire; Bernard De Voto, for his history Across the Wide Missouri; Margaret Clapp, for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow; to W. H. Auden, for his "baroque eclogue" Age of Anxiety; Walter Piston, for his Symphony...
Bernard De Voto, 51, Harper's columnist and literary historian (Mark Twain's America, Minority Report), won appointment to the Department of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments...
...Wolfe a large talent, but claim that his technical deficiencies prevented him from fully realizing his potentialities. Such critics are appalled by what they consider Wolfe's undisciplined and often pointless verbosity, his naive egotism and his outrageous lack of organized knowledge about the modern world. Bernard De Voto summed up this view in four words: "Genius is not enough...