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Whose Opinion? The U.S. State Department's reaction to all this was pithily summed up in a letter written by Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson in answer to a request for information on the case from Michigan's Congressman Alvin Bentley. Wrote Henderson: "I would like to state categorically that our officers in the embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Izmir were deeply concerned about this case from the beginning and that they acted properly and with good judgment to safeguard the rights of the accused. In my opinion, [they] have lived...
...realize," says he, "that a song is a theatrical play"). For a time, Yves sang the Communist line, appeared at party rallies, specialized in social-protest numbers. But politics, he now believes, is not his line-possibly because he owns a chateau in Normandy, drives a $25,000 Bentley and reaps a fat profit from stage appearances and films (his latest: Where the Hot Wind Blows with Gina Lollobrigida). The mesmeric effect he has on females of all ages only occasionally bothers his wife, Cinemactress Simone (Room at the Top] Signoret. "When it gets too boring," says...
...some 200 charities. But he likes to live well. He collects paintings (about 100 by Gainsborough, Bonnard, Vlaminck, etc.), houses (a Fifth Avenue duplex, an estate on the Hudson, a 15-room summer home on Fishers Island-a millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise, chops wood regularly. And he does not worry about his investments...
...Development Loan Fund. The request had been killed by the powerful House Appropriations Committee, but Halleck visited with Ohio's Republican Representative Frank Bow, a bitter-end opponent of foreign aid, persuaded him to vote with the Administration. When Halleck took his case to Michigan Republican Alvin Bentley, who had rarely voted so much as a nickel for foreign aid, Bentley said: "You may be surprised by what I do." Halleck was indeed surprised. Bentley not only voted to restore $100 million, but actually made a speech in favor of foreign aid. Where in past years scores of Republican...
...magazines, Maggie Biddle inevitably described all her guests as handsome, intelligent or charming, reserving for those she did not like, such as Pierre Mendes-France, the adjective "controversial." Maggie took her duties as a reporter so seriously that she would show up at Communist rallies in her chauffeur-driven Bentley...