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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Samovar to Tula | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...lightweight (1933-35) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Very Rev. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, still talking about his last trip around the Soviet Union (in a plane which Moscow placed at his disposal), once more insisted that everything was just fine behind the Iron Curtain. "They told me there was complete freedom for their churches," he burbled happily. "I am not saying 'new liberty,' because the same liberty existed before the war. [Now the Russians] have re-emphasized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Thinking It Over | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Robert Claflin '50 of Hewlett, Long Island, New York and Winthrop House, was elected captain of the varsity wrestling team yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Select Claflin to Replace Ray in Captaincy | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, U.S.-touring "Red Dean" of Canterbury, thought he agreed with Harry Truman about red herrings (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Declared the Dean: "Too much is being said about the. spy investigation. If the Russians did obtain any American state secrets they were justified in doing so because all nations indulge in spying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Screams & Shouts | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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