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...that he was a party member and that they had seen him at party meetings. ¶Granite-faced, big-eared Michael Lee had been cleared in one Commerce Department loyalty check before he became involved recently in a second one. Born in Harbin, Manchuria of Russian parents and christened Ephraim Zinovi Liberman, Lee had failed three times in bids for U.S. citizenship (grounds: he was not of "good character" and was not "attached to the principles of the Constitution"). Lee changed his name, married an American, and on the fourth try achieved citizenship. Only two months ago, while a subcommittee...
...romance between bees and flowers is not always gentle. Alfalfa flowers, for instance, can be brutal. Last week Dr. Ephraim Hixson of the University of Nebraska was trying to make alfalfa flowers kinder to bees. His object, of course, was more alfalfa seed...
Many a consumer, stung with high-priced, shoddy goods, has fervently wished he could tell off the manufacturer. Last week, mild-mannered Ephraim Freedman, who runs the testing laboratory for R. H. Macy & Co., got the job done. "Shortsightedness and selfish interests are hampering the production and delivery of the kinds of goods consumers require at prices they can afford to pay," said he at a textile symposium in Manhattan...
...McLean chair, being awarded to Professor Brinton, is one of the oldest in the University; its previous holders include Jared Spark, 1815, also a president of the College, and Ephraim Whitman Gurney '52, for whom the Gurney chair is named. The last McLean Professor was William Scott Ferguson, who became an emeritus last spring...
Gallery-goers who had come to expect murky realism of Charles Ephraim Burchfield were in for a surprise. Artist Burchfield has had a violent shift of purpose. One of the top half-dozen painters of the "American Scene," Burchfield, at 52, has decided that the look of a scene is not enough. Said he last week, as his first Manhattan show since 1943 opened: "Subject matter can be distracting; I'm trying to paint more what I feel...