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...Shame to the Cause." Before his arrest, without a warrant, Alleg had been hiding out for months to escape internment after the banning of Alger Républicain, the Communist daily that he edited 1950-55. He wrote The Question four months after he was tortured, managed to smuggle it out of the civil prison in Algiers where he is still held on the charge of "endangering the safety of the State...
...Aladdin, a sort of Horatio Alger story smothered in Oriental opulence, had everything except taste. There were fire-eaters, elephants and Chinese superbazaars, and special effects that must have taken all of Sponsor Du Font's chemical resources. The score - his first for TV-seemed not so much by Cole Porter as against him. Cyril Ritchard's sporadic drollery clashed with the eager droolings of the teen-ager's rage, Sal Mineo, whose Aladdin only maddened. As for Perelman, even his "native sportiveness" was lacking. He would probably have done better with one of the earthier versions...
...packed his bags to return to Washington, Dallas' Republican Representative Bruce Alger looked grimly forward to the second session of the Democratic 85th Congress. "I foresee bitterness and hatefulness," he said last week. "We are going to squabble and fight and make the world think we hate each other and that we can't solve our problems. We are going to have bigger and bigger budgets, higher taxes, more Government spending at home and abroad, and more inflation accompanied by deficit financing. Happy New Year...
Congressman Alger's view, of the horizon may have been unduly clouded, but few of his colleagues who will move up to Capitol Hill for the opening of Congress next week were much more optimistic about the prospects. They are largely the same men who marched down the Hill only four months ago, but they are coming back to a different world. Inflation has changed to recession; the unassailable Eisenhower is under heavy assault; big talk of economy has changed to big talk of defense spending; and the air of smug superiority has yielded to the very real threat...
Died. John McDowell, 55, acid-tongued, flag-waving sometime Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1939-41, 1947-49), among those credited by Whittaker Chambers (in Witness) with hunting down the facts (while a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee) that led to the arrest and conviction of Alger Hiss; by his own hand (gunshot); at his home in Wilkinsburg...