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...first U.S. dance company to hit Pans since the war had been greeted by a very small Allõ. The French like ballet but they like it classical; and the Ruth Page-Bentley Stone Ballet Company's big number, Frankie and Johnny, was just raw American barbarism to the French audience (TIME, May 22). As the first shock wore off, the audiences and critics became more tolerant but hardly less puzzled. Last week a second wave of U.S. dancers reached Paris...
...students of the Communist conspiracy there is more to come. Scheduled for 1950-51 publication: books by Hede Massing, former wife of Gerhart Eisler, by onetime Communist spy Elizabeth Bentley, and by Whittaker Chambers...
...followers of Washington's noisy, tortured wrestling with the questions of loyalty and Communism, neither Remington nor Lee were unfamiliar names: ¶Handsome, Dartmouth-trained William Remington had been accused by Elizabeth Bentley of having been a party member, but he had survived an intensive Government loyalty check, cleared his name and returned to work with back pay. He became the subject of another loyalty inquiry last month (TIME, May 15) when two other former Communists testified that he was a party member and that they had seen him at party meetings. ¶Granite-faced, big-eared Michael...
...agents toiled at matching these vague swatches of information against the yard goods in their files. They sifted through the affairs of more than a thousand suspected Communist agents. Then, a search of New York grand jury records produced a clue -a piece of testimony by Vassar Graduate Elizabeth Bentley, the reformed Communist courier. Jacob Golos, onetime Soviet spymaster in the U.S., who had been Miss Bentley's lover, once introduced her to a Philadelphia chemist named Harry Gold and had described him as a reliable link in the transmission system...
Remington spent all his savings last year fighting off Elizabeth Bentley's charges that he had given her secret documents while he was with the War Production Board. He has recently been accused of membership in a 1937 Knoxville Communist cell. Lee was charged by a Senator with impeding the flow of aviation gasoline to the Chinese nationalists. It will be very unfortunate if the two men are fired without the public finding out what the Commerce Department thinks of these charges, if indeed it thinks of them...