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...recall the background of that historic tangle with Stalin, Ben Gitlow, highest placed and most articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does not try to prove that his brand of Communism was right, that of the Stalinites wrong. Given Marx and Lenin, concludes Author Gitlow, Stalinism is inevitable; Fascism also. As for his own role in the Party, Author Gitlow confesses he was no better than the next one -though naturally he credits...
...found a dynasty and how, once it is founded, to end it, this is the picture for you. J. Edward Bromberg is the only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears; it was a shame to see the Pardways go down the drain...
...novel concerned young love, and was set in a Harvard background. It described the attempt of a student here to achieve normal relations with the female sex. "The amatory relation still remains a matter of personal adjustment and personal wisdom," was Lewis' conclusion...
There are three types of accents, Packard disclosed. First there is the broad A, or Hawvuhd group, comprising Back Bay and Park Avenue youths with a prep school background...
...Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, who will be 19 in June, applied to Surrogate's Court for her daughter's 1940 living expenses: $52,000. The application read: "[Brenda] ... is a grown woman moving in the society in which, because of her parents' and grandparents' background, she has taken a definite place." To another young heiress...