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...great a hoard of data against the long, cold winter of private life. By last week, 872 black-bound volumes, averaging 300 pages apiece, lined three walls of Morgenthau's Manhattan office. A stack of material still unbound would run the collection to 900 volumes. Even a cipher-happy New Dealer could only guess at the word count-perhaps...
Shrewdly cut and staged by Margaret Webster and handsomely mounted by David Ffolkes, last week's Henry held up as storytelling and scored as pageantry. But it took on no added drama with Walter Hampden a stately cipher in Wolsey's role, Victor Jory messing...
After 16 days in court, the bloom was off little Fred Rose. At the start of his conspiracy trial in Montreal, Canada's only Communist member of Parliament had been jaunty. The defense sneered at documentary evidence produced by Igor Gouzenko, former Soviet Embassy cipher clerk, who named Rose as a "recruiting agent" for a Russian spy ring, as "ridiculous." But the Crown produced some 50 witnesses, 175 exhibits and about 30,000 words of testimony a day to prove that Fred Rose had, indeed, sold out his country. The jury verdict: guilty. Once jailed for sedition...
...have a feeling of love for [Russia]," whispered 25-year-old Emma Woikin, ex-cipher clerk in the Canadian External Affairs Department. "I wanted to help the Soviet but not to hurt Canada...
Married. Celeste Holm, 26, adaptable actress who played a home wrecker in The Women, an aging cipher in The Time of Your Life, a rather naughty girl in Oklahoma!; and A. Schuyler Dunning, 36, ex-A.A.F. captain; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...