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...mainly from ex-employes of the leftist Manhattan tabloid PM. Among them were Associate Editor Richard O. Boyer (ex-PM foreign correspondent) and National Affairs Editor Leo Huberman (ex-PM labor editor). William Dodd Jr., foreign news editor, led off with a straight pro-Soviet interpretation of the present rift between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists in China. Martha Dodd was represented only indirectly-her husband, Alfred K. Stern (member of the Communist fellow-traveling American Peace Mobilization and the New York Conference of Inalienable Rights), is U. S. Week's vice president...
...West, Mrs. Jimmy Walker (formerly Dancer Betty Compton) failed to get her divorce (TIME. Feb. 24) after all, ended by having to pay court costs. Asking what she meant when she told newshawks earlier this year "there is not a rift in the cloud" of her married life, the judge declared her "pleadings and proofs" against New York City's onetime mayor and present clothing-industry boss "support at best a case of incompatibility and not a case of extreme cruelty within the meaning of the law in Florida. Incompatibility is not a ground for divorce in this State...
...this particular view appears likely to be voted down. Another question that bobs up is the fate of the Progressive, the HSU organ which, under the leadership of Marx and Stange, has become one of Harvard's best-written, most provocative magazines. It would be especially unfortunate if the rift in the HSU should result in clogging this outlet of student opinion...
...Gravest present rift between a bishop and his dean is that of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, ardent Communist sympathizer. Like other deans, Dr. Johnson's main job is the care of his cathedral and its services. The Archbishop, who mortally hates & fears Communism, enters Canterbury Cathedral warily and as seldom as possible, last March got support from the cathedral chapter when five resident canons denounced the Dean's politics, dissociated themselves from...
...spectacle of two Du Fonts stepping aside was too much for the Du Pont-owned Wilmington newspapers. For 24 hours the company changes outheadlined the war. But the startling fact of a non-Du Pont in the presidency meant no change in the family control, no shift, rift or difference in policy. Lively Henry Belin du Pont, 41, dog fancier, aviator and vice president, specialist in engineering, purchases and sales, stands ready to bring the Du Pont name back to the president's office when energetic Walter Carpenter eventually gets ready to step...