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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
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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.
Our Confidence
The confidence which we have
in ourselves gives birth to much
of that which we have in others.—
La Rochefoucauld.
iMQBW
Liking Duty
The secret of happiness is not
in doing what one likes, but in
liking what one has to do.—James
M. Barrie.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulsioh relieves promptly be-
genn
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
lor Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Of course you’ll want to see “Mr.
Bug Goes to Town,” the feature-
length cartoon on which Dave
Fleisher and his staff of 700 anima
tors and artists have been working
for the past 10 months. Here’s some
inside information on it. Fleisher
figures that an entire painting of a
scene or character must be made
for every one twenty-fourth of a sec
ond the feature is being projected
on the screen. 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.
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Nazi Spy Ship Prisoners Brought Ashore
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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?
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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. All three went to
dramatic schools. |
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ODDS AND ENDS—Victor Mature will ,
be seen as a gangster in Fox’s “Highway 1
in Hell,” with Pat O’Brien . . . K'hen :
George Brent was ill recently Ann Sheri
dan sent him roses frequently; he had
them made into perfume, which he sent i
her . . . Harold Lloyd has picked Kay !
Kyser to star in “My Favorite Spy,” his ‘
new production . . . Orson IVelles has j
signed Dolores Costello for the leading I
role in “The Magnificent Ambersons” . . . !
Richard Barthclmess, once a screen favor
ite, returns for an important role in
RKO’s “The Mayor of 44th Street” . . .
Melvyn Douglas woos Garbo in “Tu'o-
Faced IVamun,” and Norma Shearer in
‘ffe Were Dancing.”
What Now?
“You should work hard and get
99
“I’ve got a head.’*
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, with
Ease for Stomach, too
When constipation brings on add in
digestion, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy
spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
“crying the blues” because your bowels
don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowds,
combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect
ease to your stomach in taking. For years,
many Doctors have given pepsin prepa
rations in their prescriptions to make
medicine more agreeable to a touchy stom
ach. So be sure your laxative contains
Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell’s
Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep
sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative
Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles
in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation. And the good old
Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative so com-
•fortable and easy on your stomach. Even
finicky children love the taste of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald
well's Laxative Senna at your druggist
today. Try one laxative combined with
Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too.
Masterpiece
“Which of your works of fiction
do you consider the best?”
“My latest income-tax return.”
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FEMALE
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nervous feelings—due to monthly
functional disturbances.
Taken regularly — Lydia Pink-
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ance against distress of “difficult
days." They also help build up red
yblood. Follow label directions^
Mutual Education
We educate our children and
they educate us.—Sigourney.
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