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Disillusioned. Choreographer (The King and I, Call Me Madam) Jerome Robbins testified that he had joined the Communist Party in 1944, quit it in 1947 a disillusioned man. He recalled that two other big names of the theater were members of his cell: Playwrights Jerome (My Sister Eileen) and Edward (Those Endearing Young Charms) Chodorov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Name Is Familiar | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Christianity has a long prison record. Ever since the days of the Apostle Paul, Christians have been familiar with the barred window and the dungeon cell. And ever since the first Good Friday when the cock crew and Peter wept, Christians have died rather than deny their faith and save their skins. This is the strict code of the Christian prisoner, but what of the compromises in between? Last week one missionary publicly castigated another for keeping his religion but buying his freedom with falsehoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missionary Who Lied | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...moved to a small cell with seven other prisoners, all Chinese, where they were forced to discuss every detail of their past lives for hours on end, interspersing the discussions with interminable readings from Communist propaganda material. At intervals, a government official grilled Stockwell on his "crimes" and angrily ordered him back for further reflection when he denied them. Stockwell began to see that what the Communists wanted was not just a confession but a conversion-a new way of looking at the world. He decided to give them what they wanted and win his freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missionary Who Lied | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Furry refused to toll a House Committee in Washington whether he is or ever was a Communist, though he identified a Smith College professor as a member of & Red cell at Harvard from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Move Soon on Probe Cases | 5/5/1953 | See Source »

Guestwork. In Kalamazoo, Mich., after police refused Harvey Bogema's plea to book him for drunkenness and give him shelter in the city jail, he came back three hours later, sneaked into an unlocked cell, fell asleep while smoking and set fire to the mattress, was sheltered in the county jail for the next 15 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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