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...Manhattan six years ago, when a baldish little man with glasses came aboard on a 25? visitor's ticket and sailed as a stowaway. Unlike most stowaways, he soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three-cushion carom on the international billiard table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Billiards on the High Seas | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Housework | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Long acknowledged the No. 1 newspaper specialist on Reds, he has been exposing Communists since 1938, and, unlike many other anti-Communist writers, he was never a Communist himself. A hard-digging reporter, he backed his stories with solid documentation-e.g., he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the top Kremlin agent in the U.S. the day before the FBI picked Eisler up. For his articles "on the infiltration of Communists in the U.S.," Woltman won a Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: About McCarthy | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Washington hotel suite, and at one social gathering there in April 1950, a young woman asked the Senator: "Just how long ago did you discover Communism?" McCarthy's answer: "Two and a half months!" By that time, Woltman recalled, twelve top U.S. Communists had been convicted, Gerhart Eisler had jumped his bail and fled the country, Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury, and Klaus Fuchs had been arrested in Britain. Said Woltman: "Senator McCarthy, although he often took credit, had no hand in [these cases. His] knowledge and understanding of Communism were sparse." Nevertheless, McCarthy has been able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: About McCarthy | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...article in Monday's paper was labelled "Brass Tacks," and was not an editorial. A "Brass Tacks" is an analysis of a current or historical question; it is intended only to inform and does not contain an editorial opinion. In the Monday "Tacks," Lattimore was included with Browder, Eisler, and smith because he too is a controversial figure. The protest by the American Legion ever the invitation to Mr. Lattimore was one indication that his appearance would be controversial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUCID, BUT CONTROVERSIAL | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

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