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...studies, who fled to Mexico in 1954 before a scheduled questioning by university authorities. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover included Halperin's name with that of Harry Dexter White in a list of suspected Communist agents sent to President Truman in 1945; according to ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, Halperin gave her secret documents and party dues when he was employed...
...drive into U.S. luxury-car market, plans to export 20% of its production to U.S. Rolls has nearly tripled its U.S. distributorships (to 59) in past 60 days, will soon kick off newspaper ad campaign, and send a caravan on tour of Southwest cities to push its $12,500 Bentley and $12,800 Silver Cloud...
...seven stories of her new book, Yorkshirewoman Bentley brings off a considerable literary feat by exploring her region in time: the first story is set in 1350, the last in 1950. Place names echo and re-echo-Annotsfield, Whindale, the Ire Valley-as do the names of people: Brigg, Egmont, Resmond. Novelist Bentley succeeds in showing, as she sets out to do, that Yorkshire's West Ridinghood is persistent in the character of the tykes -whether they wield bows, shuttles or hymnbooks...
More Than Romance. Two stories illustrate the methods Author Bentley uses in all seven. In Revenge Upon Revenge, she sets three young men on a bloody course of vengeance in obedience to the private laws of a medieval feud between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid...
More Than Money. Author Bentley writes in a spare, harsh style. But at her best she is as clear-spoken as Trollope, as sharp-eyed as Balzac, when it comes to the main theme of most lives: love and money-both, of course, in their proper place. She has the disarming habit of reviewing her own stories by telling the reader what he ought to think about them. Of A Case of Conscience she says: "The inhabitants of Annotsfield . . . are often supposed by those outside the town to be complete materialists, narrow-minded, uncultured, coarse, interested only in cloth...