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On May 20, 1944, the American Academy of Arts & Letters and the National Institute of Arts & Letters honored four distinguished Americans: editor and publisher Samuel S. McClure (McClure's magazine), novelists Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser, and actor, singer, and social activist Paul Robeson.

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