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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1941 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) ^TEW YORK. — William Cullen x 11 Bryant once engaged in a fist- fight in City Hall park with James Gordon Bennett, as the culmination c* r% e» of a violent Steps Down From political ar- ivory Tower to gument. Otli- Aid HU Country ers of our poets have occasionally mixed in politics, held political jobs or died in battle, but the tradition has held that they are cloistered folk, not to be taken too seriously in matters of any great moment. Archibald MacLeish, one of the best of contemporary American po ets, and librarian of congress, has been asked to accept the adminis tration of the new Washington agen cy called the Office of Facts and Figures. He and his agency will try to get reason, if not rhyme, into the daily outpouring of un-related and sometimes contradictory statis tics of national defense and foreign policies. In Juvenal’s line, “That poet seems to be capable of walking a tight rope .... all with the power of a magician.” There was quite a buzz of op position throughout the country when Mr. MacLeish was made librarian of congress, three years ago. There was, how ever, some precedent for poets in government jobs and in poli tics, as well as on the firing line. There was Eugene Ware, topical versifier, who held down a good job in the pension depart ment, about 30 years ago, and did it well. Then there was shaggy old Walt Whitman, in the same department at a time when the government seemed to need tight-rope walkers and ma gicians, to say nothing of poets, even more than it does now. Gen. William Haines Lytle was a poet and politician—the author of *T Am Dying, Egypt, Dying,” of school-boy recitation fame. He be came a colonel of the Tenth Ohio Volunteers and died leading a charge at Chickamauga. As to po ets in general coming to the aid of their country, there may be cited John McRae, who wrote “Flanders Field”; Joyce Kilmer and Rupert Brooke. Each gave his life. Mr. MacLeish is, like his prede cessor, Eugene Ware, somewhat of h topical versifier, but a much bet ter poet. He frankly teams up po etry and propaganda—always for de mocracy as a faith and not as an institution. On his graduation from Yale in 1915, he was grooved into a business career by hi^ parents, and was surprisingly good at that too. Disregarding his par ents' warnings that there were “no gold mines on Parnassus,” he knocked off and made his career as a poet—on up to and beyond his winning of the $1,000 Pulitzer prize for his poem “Conquistador” in 1933. During the current war years, he has driven a sharp lance against our pre-war artificers of literary lace-work and their companion ate wanderers in foggy intro spection. He was born in Glen coe, 111. 'T'HOSE houses built like silos i the back yard of the Museum o* Modern Art in New York are the development of a quite similar blend of art and We May Yet Be utility de- Housed in Silos vised by And Eat Ensilage * hei ^ ' Ie ?' tor, R. Buck minster Fuller, back in 1929. He first made them to live in, and they were to be standardized, and sell for about $3,000 apiece. His Dymaxion unit of today is not only a domicile, but it is adapted to use for defense housing, air raid shel ters or troop barracks, or may be used as a beach or guest house. Mr. Fuller is acutely aware of so cial change, which awareness has been one of the main inspirations of his scheming and dreaming about a world in which creativeness will outrun disaster. He pioneered air planes as symbolic of human libera tion and aspiration and took sea plane vacations, embellishing his ad venture narratives with poetic apos trophes of flight. In 1938, he published a four-dollar book, called “Nine Chains to the Moon.” A lot of it was pretty deep. Mr. Fuller explained it at the end in this manner: “Therefore be it resolved: To re solve every considerate, wish-evok ing central concept into a reason ably efficacious resistance, eliminat ing, inanimate device of time and contiguous service to time synchro nization, that may be factorable from possibility to probability, this intent to streamline man’s competi tive volition unbeknown to him into a scientifically designed direction of least resistance, upon the occasion of his each and every dislodgment from habit inertia.” U. S. Destroyer Torpedoed on Patrol —— mmmmt View in Brooklyn navy yard when the U. S. destroyer, Kearny, was commissioned, under command of Lieut. Commander A. L. Danis. The destroyer was torpedoed while on patrol duty, about 350 miles southwest of Iceland. The ship continued on its course, under its own power, to an unnamed port, with 11 members of the crew missing and 10 injured, two of them seriously. The navy department stated that the attack on the Kearny was undoubtedly made by a German submarine. Tbe Kearny was launched in March, 1940, at Kearny, N. J., and had a complement of 13 officers and 177 men. Loyal to School At Neutrality Hearing Secretary of State Cordell Hull, left, is shown talking with Rep. Sol. Bloom, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, during the neutrality hearing on Capitol Hill, on the arming of merchant ships. The attack on the U. S. destroyer, Kearny, gave impetus to the hearings on revision of the law. ' \ < Ruins of London Town Five hundred students of the Georgia university came to the cap- itol in Atlanta to protest to Governor Talmage because their school had been dropped from the Southern university conference. Governor Talmage was not in town at the time of the demonstration. Note stu dents mounting bust of Talmage on capitol grounds. Protests Seizure This photograph, just released by the British censor, shows some of the devastated sections in the center of London after air raid clearance work. An entire block of demolished buildings has been completely removed, leaving nothing but vacant lots, as shown in the picture. U. S. seizure of 18 Douglas light bombers bound for Peru and possi ble use against Ecuador, was pro tested by Col. Armando Revoredo (above), air attache of the Peruvian embassy in Washington, who termed the seizure an unfriendly act. E^SCRE By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) J ANE WYMAN and Regis Toomey have teamed to shatter all records for the screen’s longest kiss — it last ed three minutes and five seconds, and you’ll see it in Warner Bros.’ “You’re in the Army Now.” The former rec ord was held by Ann Sheridan and George Brent. Jane and Regis, seated on a hard piano bench, were told just to keep on kissing till told to stop, while Donald McBride, play ing Jane's father (as well as an army colonel), discussed military problems. First thing they knew, they’d set a new record. & Old-timers may remember “Hu moresque,” which was filmed way back in 1920 with Alma Rubens, Vera Gordon and Gaston Glass. It’s coming back to the screen, this time probably with John Garfield in the Gaston Glass role, that of a violinist whose career is cut short by military conscription. BARnet&w TUMtMONfER INVENTED TUB SEWING-MACHINE IN 1850. A MOB, RESENTING HIS eermzmv, DESTROYED IT. THE BETTER WAY 10 TREAT CONSTtfmoN DUE TO LACK OP PROPER ' f BULK a IN THE DIET IS TO CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS CEREAL, KELLOGG'S > ALL-BRAN... EAT IT EVERY DAY AND PRINK PLENTY OF WATER. Fred MacMurray was too young for the last war, so he didn’t know what it feels like to crawl through barbed wire entanglements till just ‘Swap’ That Failed FRED MacMURRAY the other day. He had to plunge through chicken wire for a scene ir “The Lady Is Willing,” the new Columbia comedy he’s making with Marlene Dietrich. The wire merely surrounded some rabbits, but when he got out he felt as if he’d been through several wars. * Margaret Hayes isn’t wearing backless evening gowns just now; probably won’t for some time. As the female spy in “The Lady Has Plans” she had to have the design of a radio-controlled torpedo drawn on her back. Theoretically, ac cording to the script, the ink is re moved with a chemical which makes the plans invisible till another chem ical agent causes them to reappear. Margaret was told by the prop man that she needn’t worry, but she has no faith in trifk. chemicals. 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Breaking down his budget of $1,000,000 in terms of run ning time, that comes to $9 per frame, or picture. “Mr. Bug Goes to Town” is a drama of insert life. —m— Nazi Spy Ship Prisoners Brought Ashore ! ■ ^ •' tv-.-:-:-:-:-.- ..- 4 .: - ^ ^ :• •••••' •• s ; Wounded German prisoners are helped aboard British hospital ship at Newhaven, England. They were to have been taken to Dieppe, France, for exchange with British prisoners in Nazi hands, but it was called off. Pretty Snappy, Eh? s rQMWNmm With their duffle bags, 22 Norwegian Nazis and Gestapo agents are being taken to the immigration station in East Boston, Mass., aboard a coast guard patrol boat, after the German radio supply ship, Busko, was brought to Boston, following its seizure in Greenland waters. The Busko sought to establish a radio station in Greenland. Six new uniforms for women in civilian defense have been approved. Photo shows girl with office work ers’ uniform looking at insignia on nurse’s aide uniform. Incidentally, Miss Dietrich would like to make it very clear that the jewelry she wears in that picture doesn’t belong to her. The $500,000 worth of gems were shipped from New York, and half an hour after they were sent from a jewelry store to the studio the shop was robbed. So the glamorous Marlene hired a couple of body guards and let it be known that when it’s not before the cameras it’s in a bank. ^— Radio’s Fibber McGee and Molly are about to lose their privacy. As Mr. and Mrs. J. Jordan they haven’t got a single rise out of an autograph hound. But with millions of screen fans seeing them on the screen in “Look Who’s Laughing,” along with Edgar Bergen and Lucille Ball, they’re sure to be recognized wher ever they go. * Critics of dramatic schools say that they’re no place to learn to act. Paramount’s “Gun for Hir*»” has three answers to that. They are (1) Veronica Lake, (2) Robert Preston, (3) Alan Ladd. 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