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...before-Robert Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Samson Raphaelson (The Jazz Singer, 1952 version)-but they seem to be writing down to the movies. While they occasionally use words of three syllables, the ideas are generally kindergarten. The story tells of an ambitious young playwright (Tom Morton) who tries to make the big jump from the Lower East Side to Broadway. But while romancing the theater, he neglects his small-town girl (Mary Murphy), who begins to pay attention to a hardware dealer with a soft heart (Herb Shriner...
...York, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan gave a five-year prison sentence to lanky William Perl (TIME, June 1), 34-year-old jet-propulsion expert and onetime classmate (Manhattan's City College) of Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. It was "abundantly established," said Judge Ryan, that Perl had deliberately lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not know Rosenberg or Sobell...
Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nauseating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
...federal grand jury which indicted Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell called Perl in and asked him if he hadn't been palling around with them. He denied it. He denied it again last week in a New York federal court where he was tried for perjury. He repeated over & over, "I do not lie." But other witnesses testified that Perl and the spies (both of whom were his classmates at City College) had been seen together dozens of times and that he had frequently attended meetings of the Young Communist League with them in New York...
Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President, Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel-free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nau-seating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...