Word: bentleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening-night performance of the small Ruth Page-Bentley Stone Ballet Company, the first U.S. troupe to appear in Paris since the war, was a preview. Invited guests filled the Théatre des Champs-Elysées' orchestra seats; only the balcony seats were sold. Soon after the curtain went up a barrage of boos and catcalls whistled down...
...loyalty case can have a happy ending, William W. Remington's seemed to have had one. Two years ago, Remington, a boyish-looking Department of Commerce economist, was accused by ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley of passing wartime secrets to her espionage ring. He was promptly suspended from his $10,330-a-year job. Then the top U.S. loyalty review board studied his case, sent him back to work with $5,000 back pay and a clean bill of health-although his duties had been juggled so that he was burdened with few security decisions. When ex-Spy Bentley...
...days later the committee called Elizabeth Bentley for more secret testimony. Nobody worried too much at this stage whether Remington had been a Communist at age 3 or 18. The question that haunted the committee was whether Remington, at age 32-or the three ex-Communists-had committed perjury...
...reply to Miss Bentley's charges two years ago, Remington stated that he had known her only as a "Miss Helen Johnson," a researcher for magazines. He said that he had given "Miss Johnson" no W.P.B. information, either secret or non-secret...
...Miss Bentley repeated her allegations on a television program, where she no longer enjoyed Congressional immunity. Remington brought a $100,000 libel suit against Miss Bentley, the television company, and the program's sponsors, which was settled out of court last February for a "substantial...