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...Earl Edward Toiler Smith, 57, is slated to go to Bern as Ambassador to Switzerland, although the Swiss have made it clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith was Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959. An ardent supporter of ex-Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba...
...charge of Communist penetration of the State Department "a fraud and a hoax" on the U.S. public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health...
...cancer; in New York City. Born Francis X. Waldron Jr. of a middle-class Seattle family, Dennis joined the party as a youthful instructor, served as a Red agent in Europe, China and South Africa, became the leader of U.S. Communists after Moscow dumped his onetime mentor, Earl Browder, for deviationist notions. In 1950 Dennis went to jail for refusing to testify about his Communism before a House committee; again, after the 1949 trial of "first-string" Communists, he was convicted for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government and sentenced to five years...
Martha's wispy plot, laid in 18th century England, has to do with two ladies from the Queen's court who, as a joke, indenture themselves as servants to two farmers, fall in love with and marry them after one farmer has been discovered to be the Earl of Derby. Last week's production was fitted out with a new English translation by Ann Ronell, who angrily asked that her name be dropped from the program after the Met cut various changes she had made in the original libretto. The performances-by Victoria de los Angeles, Rosalind...
...Grass Is Greener. A British comedy of manors is skillfully brought off by Gary Grant, as an earl who opens his stately home to the public and is cuckolded by Robert Mitchum, playing a cartoon American...