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Died. Bella Dodd, 64, teacher and political activist whose penchant for political reform led her to both ends of the spectrum; following gall bladder surgery; in Manhattan. While teaching political science at New York's Hunter College in the 1920s and '30s, she was one of Communism's most strident U.S. voices. In 1949, she fell afoul of the party for departing from the Moscow line, and thereupon turned 180°. She was a frequent and damaging informer during the McCarthy Senate hearings, eventually grew so conservative that last year she ran (and lost) for U.S. Congressman...
...Tall, handsome and charming, Eastman captivated women (three marriages, numerous self-publicized affairs), yet nothing equaled his youthful love match with radicalism. In World War I, as editor of The Masses, he preached so violently against U.S. involvement that he was indicted (but not convicted) for sedition. In the 1920s, he traveled to Russia, where he became an intimate of Trotsky, but disillusionment came with Stalin's terrorism and the 1939 pact with Hitler. Eastman's books, Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1939) and Marxism: Is It Science? (1940) are still regarded as among...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Dame Sybil Thorndike and Virginia McKenna in A Passage to India, a dramatization of E. M. Forster's novel about the failure of East to meet West in 1920s India...
After the 1920s, Terre Haute went into economic decline. There were repeated floods and a succession of bitter labor disputes, including a 1935 general strike. The mines lost money and the rail yards (famed as the starting point for Union Organizer and Socialist Candidate for President Eugene Debs) sharply diminished. In 1963 a series of gas explosions upended buildings and won the city the derisive title of "Boomtown, U.S.A." More and more, Terre Haute (1968 pop. 72,500) leaned for revenue on Indiana State, which grew from 4,000 students to 16,000 in ten years...
...bewildering health-care maze. Yet not enough U.S. doctors today are qualified to fill this role well, and the organization of the profession discourages it. With the discoveries of new and potent "wonder drugs"?insulin, the sulfas and antibiotics, new hormones and vaccines?each succeeding decade after the 1920s should have been a golden age of medicine. But medicine needed the understanding and compassion for the patient that had marked the old-style, unscientific family doctor. The American Medical Association, long the champion of improved medical practice, lost sight of the patient. It developed certain obsessions, seeing threats...