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...Boston, Mass.; Robert G. Fakin, Shaker Hghts, Ohio; William D. Geer Jr., New York, N. Y.; David F. Hawkins, Australia; James D. Hays, Johnstown, N. Y.; John S. Holcenberg, Seattle, Wash.; John G. Johnson, Des Moines, Iowa; Lawrence C. Jordan, Denver, Col.; James P. Jorgensen, W. Palm Beach, Fla.; Abba J. Kastin, Cleveland Hghts, Ohio; Richard L. Plaut Jr., New York City; David P. Segel, Newton, Mass.; Richard M. Stenson, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; Robert H. Washer, Rockville, Center, N. Y.; Joseph B. Yeaton, Hamilton, Mass.; Noble Smith, Marblehead, Mass.; Steven J. Schneider, New York City; Clifford F. Thompson, Kansas...
Young Eddie Cantor acted in Alliance-sponsored plays, Arthur Murray learned to dance there, and Morris Cohen discussed philosophy in the Comte Synthetic Circle. Radioman David Sarnoff and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver got encouragement from sympathetic teachers...
Able, chubby Envoy Abba Eban got on the phone to Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J. Einstein, 73 years old, a naturalized U.S. citizen, listened, paused, and then gave his regretful no. The next day he wrote to Eban that he was deeply touched by the Israeli offer, but never undertook functions he could not fill to his satisfaction. He liked studying the physical world, he added, but, "I have neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings...
Quick to voice shock over the President's implication that Ike condoned an anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic immigration policy (see above) was one of U.S. Jewry's leaders, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. Former president of the Zionist Organization of America, Dr. Silver pointedly called on Eisenhower in New York, then issued a statement...
...Swoon "The latest diplomatic feint," said a U.N. wag last week, "is the dead faint." The trend was set by Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...