Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor of the leading U.S. Protestant magazine, Dr. Paul Hutchinson, 62, of the 69-year-old Christian Century (circ. 37,000) was understandably surprised at the letter that came in from Daingerfield, Texas. Said the letter: "I am so impressed with this single copy that I would like to receive the publication for a 13-week trial. My check for $1 is enclosed ... It has long been [my] inviolate rule ... to refuse to subscribe to any magazine . . . unless the editor can and will sign and return to me the pledge appearing below...
Attached to the letter was a form that said: "I, the undersigned, as editor of the Christian Century, hereby pledge on my sacred word of honor that I am not and have never been a member of the Communist Party . . . that I am not in sympathy with [it] and further that... no employee of this organization...
Editor Hutchinson printed the letter and asked Century readers how to answer it. More than 275 letters told him not to sign the oath, compared to about 70 that said he should. Said one letter: "Return [his] dollar. He is not ready for the 20th century, let alone the Christian Century...
...husky Axel Springer now owns a string of two newspapers and three magazines, which worries some Germans about his potential political power. This does not worry Springer. Christian Democrats have called him a "pink" Socialist, and the Socialists accuse him of having Christian Democratic tendencies. Grins Springer: "Doesn't that prove independence...
...Journalist Curzio (Kaputt, The Skin) Malaparte, notorious in recent times for his shifting and often unsavory political alliances with both Fascist and Communist causes. In Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices a profound compassion for the sorrow...