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Edited by British Poet Stephen Spender, 44, and Irving Kristol, 33, onetime managing editor of the U.S. monthly Commentary (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Encounter hopes to provide "an interchange of views among intellectuals of the whole English-speaking world." Anything that has any bearing "on culture or freedom," explains Editor Kristol. "or preferably both together, will be the hub of the magazine." In its first issue, Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry...
...gets its money from such angels as Yeast Heir Julius Fleischmann, the Rockefeller Foundation, trade unions and other groups. The Congress, which has given the new magazine's editors a free hand, will distribute Encounter all over the world, hopes to boost its circulation to 25.000. British-born Editor Spender and American-born Kristol think an international magazine will help writing in both countries. Kristol feels that U.S. writers may have something to learn from the British, while Spender says: "Too many British writers are writing for themselves and their own little group of. say. six other writers. This...
...British-born Cinemactress Deborah Kerr, who sluffed off the prim & proper style that Hollywood thrust on her to play a sweater girl in From Here to Eternity, arrived in Manhattan (to rehearse for her first play in the U.S.) with a vision of the future. "I'd like to do as much as possible while my face and figure hold up," she mused. "Then I'd like to buy a place outside Florence where I'll paint. Then one day some people will come by, and one will say, 'Do you see that elderly lady with...
Divorced. Fred Perry, 46, British-born ex-world champion tennist (amateur and professional), now the pro at Florida's Boca Raton Club; by his third wife, Lorraine Perry, 44, after six years of marriage, no children; in West Palm Beach...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...