Word: aragon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, despite the protests of writers from all over the world, including T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him were three other famed members of the Writers' Union: Playwright Gyula Hay, Journalist Tibor Tardos, Poet Zoltan Zelk, who wrote in a widely quoted poem...
More often than not, today's maid-hunting housewife will not find just what she wants-she never could. The supermaid, the magnificent cook, the perfect butler have always been jewels beyond price; Catherine of Aragon had the same problem. The surprising thing is that the standard, oldtime maid of all work has practically disappeared from the U.S. scene. Like everybody else, the modern domestic is a specialist-or at least acts like one. Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy...
...protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as Artist Pablo Picasso and Poet Louis Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later it showed its complete contempt...
...Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and journalists born around 1900. But Hughes' story is not much like those of such men as Stephen Spender, Louis Aragon, Louis Fischer, George/Orwell, and Arthur Koestler...
Welk, who neither smokes nor drinks, lives in Brentwood, Calif, in an eleven-room Spanish-style house (no swimming pool), with his wife-a former nurse-and three children. From TV, Coral Records, the Aragon ballroom and personal appearances he grosses close to $2,000,000 a year at a time when most bands are having trouble. He is happy to pass on his formula to other orchestra leaders: "Just as soon as bands are willing to play for the public instead of themselves, they will have plenty of people ready to dance and listen to them...