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...public view in a musical, Young at Heart, and in a retread of a bestseller, Not As a Stranger, that was cashing in big. He also had two major movies in the can (The Tender Trap, a comedy, and Guys and Dolls, a musical in which he portrays Nathan Detroit, proprietor of "The world's oldest permanent floating crap game"), and had signed contracts for Carousel and three more. Probable total: five movies in twelve months. Probable personal in come from pictures in that period...
...Communist past, no one was more indignant than William Henry Taylor, onetime U.S. Treasury Department official who had found a comfortable postwar roost with the International Monetary Fund (as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs). Upon learning that Witness Bentley had cited him as a member of the Nathan Gregory Silvermaster-Harry Dexter White spy ring in the Treasury Department, Taylor angrily fired off letters and an affidavit denying that he was or ever had been a Communist. Last week, after hearings on Taylor's fitness to continue with the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. Civil Service Commission loyalty...
Member of the Ring. Wrote the board: "The reports of investigation disclosed information considered derogatory ... to the following effect: the employee [Taylor] was a member of a Soviet espionage ring headed by Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, which operated in Washington and New York in the early 1940s. The employee surreptitiously furnished to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster oral and written information affecting the national interests of the U.S. and other material and data of a confidential nature available to him as an employee of the U.S. Treasury Department. Silvermaster, in turn, transmitted the material furnished by the employee to agents of the Union...
...employee in January 1941 obtained an appointment to a position in the U.S. Treasury Department through the aid and influence of Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. The latter, who had known the employee since they were graduate students together at the University of California in 1928-30, was named by the employee as a reference on his application for employment...
...killed a messenger carrying $4,960 (along with more than $35,000 in non-negotiable checks) from the Reader's Digest offices near Pleasantville, N.Y. Two months later the killers were arrested. Tried and convicted were Calman Cooper, a paroled bandit, Harry Stein, a sullen thug, and Nathan Wissner, a habitual criminal. They were sentenced to die the week of Feb. 11, 1951-but justice was not to come so quickly...