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...woman show in any means, Wonderful Town, has an impressively versatile cast which sings as expertly as it tosses off the lines of the script. Edith Adams is a suitably attractive Eileen, while George Gaynes and Jordan Bentley are outstanding as the magazine editor and the football player, "Wreck...
Died. Brigadier General Thomas Bentley Mott (ret.), 87, longtime military aide-de-camp and attaché in Paris, personal representative of General Pershing during World War I; in Biarritz...
Elizabeth Bentley, testifying before the Un-American Activities Committee in 1948, brought up the name of Virginius Frank Coe. She remembered him vaguely as an important Treasury official, one of the underground Communists in the Federal Government who passed on information to the Soviet spy ring for which she had worked. Indignantly and categorically, before the same committee, Coe denounced the Bentley testimony as "entirely false." He swore that he was never a Communist, never followed the Red line, never knowingly gave official data to Soviet agents. How wicked it was, he went on, for innocents like himself...
...Familiar Ground. Last week Bureaucrat Coe was summoned to an open hearing of a Senate Internal Security subcommittee. Since the Bentley testimony, his name had popped up in subversion inquiries; for example, in the hearings on the Institute of Pacific Relations, he had been linked repeatedly with proCommunists. Last year the State Department refused him a passport. Just before Election Day, Senator Joe McCarthy publicly denounced him, and Treasury Secretary John Snyder followed that up by requesting his dismissal from the I.M.F...
...following, as it happens, twelve years of Republican administration." Then, many Americans became discouraged with capitalism, and nearly a million, in 1932, voted "against the capitalist system."*It was at that time, said Stevenson in an interpolation to his prepared text, "that some persons like Alger Hiss and Elizabeth Bentley, witnessing the devastation of capitalism and the menacing rise of Hitler, became entangled in the Communist conspiracy...