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...communism. Organized labor, which had once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent Reds scuttling in every direction...
...weird make-up and atom story were to celebrate April Fools' Day. Though the stunt was hoary, Pageant's 32-year-old Editor Harris Shevelson thought it had worked well enough for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in prewar days to give the alien corn a try. For his nonsense section, Shevelson had even lifted one old'gag directly from the Zeitung: pictures of "man's first attempt to fly by his own lung power...
Soviet Art, official organ of the Soviet Arts Committee, last week published an exposé of conditions under the big top. "Only by fully unmasking ... in the arenas of Soviet circuses alien bourgeois tendencies can Soviet circus art achieve a new renaissance and become a genuine expression of the strength of our great fatherland," the article said. Circus managers were attacked for "trying to replace the healthy Soviet circus, with its ideology, optimism and purposefulness, with empty, formalistic imitations...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...
...implies that romance was an easy road to the U.S. for foreign spouses [but] neglects to mention the dilemma of Korean wives of American personnel. The Korean national, although his nation is recognized by the U.S., is not eligible to reside in the U.S. as a permanent alien resident, nor dare he hope to achieve American citizenship, because the Korean is an Oriental and is subject to the Oriental Exclusion...