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...years ago, jovial, friendly Giacomo Lercaro was a mere parish priest, but one who had distinguished himself as an antiFascist. During the war he preached outspokenly against the Germans, aided partisans and sheltered refugees so effectively that eventually he was forced to flee for his life to a monastery cell. In 1947, when the Communists were riding high, the Vatican made Father Lercaro an archbishop and packed him off to Ravenna, one of the Reddest cities in Italy...
Velde, 42, is a lawyer who worked his way through the University of Illinois law school in mid-Depression, repairing radios on the side to meet expenses. During the war he joined the FBI, was assigned to the important anti-sabotage unit which kept a watch on the Communist cell at the University of California's radiation laboratory in Berkeley, where basic research was under way on atomic fission. After the war, Velde went into Republican politics in Illinois' Tazewell County, was first elected to Congress in 1948. His FBI record helped his campaign...
Last week, after signing the confession, Knobloch returned to his cell, became hysterical, ripped apart a tin can and nicked his left wrist artery, then beat on the wall, screaming: "Help me! I don't want to die!" Knobloch would not die. At the most, he might get 15 years for kidnaping. But what of Dr. Linse? Five stiff U.S. notes of protest had brought only Red shrugs. The Reds had Dr. Linse and the West had only a stupid, repentant, petty criminal named Kurt Knobloch...
...whether or not he is or ever was a Communist. He also refused to answer such questions as whether or not he had access to classified information, whether he had ever belonged to the Midtown Club of the Communist Party in Detroit, or whether he knew of any Communist cell now operating at Ohio State. "I have," said the professor later, "never done and shall never do anything disloyal and against the interests of my country." Ohio State's President Howard L. Bevis announced that Darling would be suspended until the university had a chance to make a "complete...
Good Intentions. In Sandusky, Mich., Robert Jolin, accused by sheriff's officers of planning a jailbreak, insisted he had dug out the bricks from his cell wall just to "walk around town for a little while" in the evening, was backed up by a lie detector, which indicated that he was telling the truth...