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January 14, 1939

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profiles

Profiles (The Omelet of A. Macleish)

Edmund Wilson

Satire on Archibald Macleish's "Land of the Free."

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fiction

Oh, Where Is My Wandering Brooch Tonight?

Geoffrey T. Hellman