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...says that anti-Communism looked like "a good racket." He was soon in business right up to his mouth. He named more than 150 persons as Communists (the fact that many of them were was purely coincidental). He testified against the 13 second-string Communist leaders (Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, et al.); he was a witness in the trial of Clinton Jencks, official of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. He appeared four times before the Subversive Activities Control Board, four times before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, twice before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and several times before...
...writers, as diverse in personality as in subject matter, range from glamorous Silvia Monfort, 30, whose Droit Chemin is about a professor who tries to command people as he commands ideas, to Danielle Roland, 38, the retiring wife of a physician, who wrote a moving fantasy (L'Huissier et le Sergent) of a Milquetoast dreaming about strength...
Jazz For People Who Hate Jazz (Victor LP). A perfectly respectable collection except for its repellent title and patronizing program notes. Includes vintage performances by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Count Basic, et...
...spite of Few's stature, the university met derision from the start. Some wag suggested that it change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Eruditio, Religio et Cherooto et Cigaretto. Under Few's less able successor, President Robert L. Flowers, the situation grew worse: though Duke was already beginning to build up a solid faculty, its reputation as a playboy's haven lived on. It was not until 1949, when rangy (6 ft. 2½ in.) Arthur Hollis Edens took over, that it began to come back into...
Although the New Orleans Conference was planned before last November's Rio economic conference, it is the logical sequel to the proposition advanced in Rio (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) that private enterprise can profitably do much on its own to stimulate inter-American investment...