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...long. Woltman checks the tips in a four-decker steel filing case, which bulges with clippings, speeches, articles, manifestoes, bulletins and letters from Communist sources, files of Woltman's "favorite morning newspaper": the Daily Worker. His steel filing case helped Woltman put the finger last year on Gerhart Eisler as the No. 1 Communist agent in the U.S. Says Freddy Woltman: "Simple enough. I just put two & two together"-from the filing case, that...
...skilled principal players interestingly suggest real people; notably good is Robert Ryan as a competent but unsophisticated man who gets involved with very bad companions. With an urgent score by Hanns Eisler, Director Jean Renoir has concocted a climax in which two men quarrel at the top of their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film...
...genuinely appalled at the article titled "Democracy & Security" [TIME, Feb. 17], which linked a known government enemy, Gerhart Eisler, with David Lilienthal, by your inference a "totalitarian liberal." You may not agree with Mr. Lilienthal's views, but there is still behind him a clear-cut record of honest, non-political public service which speaks for itself...
...such inference was intended. TIME was trying to contrast Lilienthal, the true democrat, and Eisler, the Communist, but concedes that the result was open to misconstruction...
Abnegation. In many ways, Gerhart Eisler's life as a Queens apartment dweller was as quiet as he indicated. Although he had a Viennese wife-his second-in Stockholm, he settled down comfortably with a slim Polish girl named Brunhilda, who had accompanied him across the Atlantic. (Eisler maintains that he got a Mexican divorce from his Stockholm wife in 1942, married Brunhilda in Norwalk, Conn, the same year.) He became an airraid warden, contributed to a blood bank, nodded pleasantly to his neighbors...