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Married. Abby Rockefeller Pardee, 49, society's "Golden Girl" of the 1920s, only daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Manhattan Banker Jean Mauze, 50; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...Times has never had much luck with its Moscow correspondents. Walter Duranty . . . waxed rhapsodic over the Soviet 'experiment' throughout the 1920s and much of the 1930s ... The 'Times man' in Moscow from 1941 to 1943, Ralph Parker, turned up shortly afterward as correspondent for both the London and New York [Communist] Daily Workers, leaving a trail of glowing red faces behind...
Died. Irene Bordoni, 59, French-accented singer-comedienne of the 1920s: of cancer; in Manhattan. She made a 1940 comeback on Broadway in Louisiana Purchase, more recently played Bloody Mary in a road company of South Pacific...
...John Moore Allison, 47, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to be Ambassador to Japan. Allison taught English in Japan in the late 1920s before entering on a foreign service career. He visited the country in 1951 as John Foster Dulles' right-hand man in the Japanese Treaty negotiations. On the side, Allison is an authority on 18th century British Statesman Robert Walpole and his letter-writing son Horace...
...made aware of the fact that the moral, scientific, political and religious life of the West rests ... on principles historically realized, which the earlier generation often took so much for granted that it thought it could deny what it was in fact assuming. It was relatively easy in the 1920s and early 1930s, when democracy seemed so well established, for the bright young men to criticize it as a bourgeois invention; in the 1950s the deeper principles of democratic life must be called to mind and the fundamental tradition re-appropriated...