Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, all this drum-beating caught the ear of George Middleton, aging (67) ex-dramatist (Polly with a Past), now a copyright expert in the Office of Alien Property. Middleton began asking Doubleday questions: Who had found the diaries and brought them to the U.S.? And why hadn't they been turned over to OAP as Government property...
...fell into the hands of a civilian military government employee. He had turned them over to Frank Earl Mason, a onetime Hearst executive and ex-vice president of NBC, now head of Fireside Press, a small Manhattan publishing house. Mason had turned them over to Doubleday to publish. When Alien Property Boss David Bazelon asked Mason to tell his story of the diaries, Mason replied that he was "too busy" to discuss it for a month...
...with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport...
Before Williamson can be deported, however, the Justice Department will have to nail down the question of whether or not he is an alien. The Government says he was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. in 1913. Williamson's story is that he was born in San Francisco, where his birth records were destroyed in the great fire and earthquake...
Hanns's composer friends* decided to hold another all-Eisler concert in Manhattan, and engaged Town Hall for Feb. 28. Hanns promised to bring forth a new work for the occasion. It was to be called The Alien Cantata. Hanns described it modestly as "a very lyrical piece about myself...