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MacLeish Reads Work Wednesday Under Gray Fund

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Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize Poet, Will give a public reading of his poems in the New Lecture Hall at 4:30 o'clock on Wednesday, under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund.

MacLeish, has had a varied career as a poet, journalist, and government official. He was Librarian of Congress before the war, and served during the war in the Office of War Information.

In 1945, he was a member of the American delegation to the London conference to draw up final plaus for U.N.E.S.C.O. cational, scientific, and cultural organization of the United Nations.

His Most recent poem of widespread acclaim was "American Was Promises" in 1939, rivaling in quality the Pulitzer Prize "Conquistador" in 1932.

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