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1966 BRECHT IN AMERICA 189 Before new "pioneers" in the cause of Bertolt Brecht make new claims, they must remember that he has been known to America since the early thirties, successful in American college theaters since the late forties, and even a smash hit in New York in 1954. He has been a late bloomer here, to be sure, and not always a commercial success, but he has lived down the fiascoes by which America first knew him. MORGAN Y. HIMELSTEIN NOTE The topic of the 1967 Modern Drama Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association will be "The Contemporary Playwright and his Sense of the Relationship of the Individual to Society." The conference will consist of two papers and their discussion. Those who wish to read papers should submit them to Professor Charles R. Lyons, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, by December 1, 1966. ...