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Confession. The man who trudged up to Capitol Hill on the following day displayed none of Robert Oppenheimer's crisp confidence. He knew what was coming. A few days before taking the stand, thin, 36-year-old Frank Oppenheimer resigned his post as assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota and his resignation had been promptly accepted. He sat uneasily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and talked about the mistake he and his wife Jacquinette had made twelve years before...
...last week, a thin, 45-year-old Negro walked into the U.S. consulate in Prague. He dropped his passport (No. 206,501) on the reception desk, wheeled abruptly and left the building. Attached to the passport was a letter. It read: "I, James Miller Robinson . . . renounce my citizenship to the United States of America." Defiantly, Robinson later told reporters : "I'd rather die than go home and shine shoes...
...fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies are beginning to talk in earnest and without apologies about how people actually live and how they treat each other. It is a wonderful, healthy sign...
...flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also did his stint on City Press...
Pope Pius XII's step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...