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...Affair) Greene applied for a U.S. visa, ran smack into the clause of the McCarran exclusion act which automatically forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice Department, which has authority to allow exceptions in unusual cases...
...aerial stuntman in the '20s and as a commercial airline pilot in the '30s, James Henry Carmichael earned a reputation for smart flying. Since becoming president of Capital Airlines in 1947, "Slim" Carmichael has shown the same talent for piloting an airline. He took over Capital when it was losing more than $2,000,000 a year, cut costs by slashing his staff to the bone and boosted business by starting cut-rate coach service. In 4½-years, he pulled Capital out of its nose dive, climbed to a $1,756,490 profit...
Oldtime Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...
...Street. Gropius believes that "the result from a well-oiled team is greater than the sum of their ideas." The Bauhaus proved him right, for the work produced there in the '20s still sets standards for functional elegance in industrial design. He has established no such all-star team at Harvard, but in 13 years Gropius has made it the nation's No. 1 architectural school...
Agnes had her dancing debut in the late '20s, in the days when Martha Graham was pioneering modern dance. Agnes was soon a close admirer of that fiercely esthetic priestess, but she never became an acolyte. It has been the distinction of Dancer de Mille's career that although her talent is small, it is strong: she has danced at every step to tunes of her own choosing...