Word: ex-communist
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Died. Bertolt ("Bert") Brecht, 58, slight, bespectacled German playwright (librettist for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera) who, according to ex-Communist Arthur Koestler, sold Marxism "with great brilliance and intellectual dishonesty" to "the snobs and parlor Communists" of Europe; of a heart attack; in East Berlin...
...night the Communist Party at Subbiano, which had prepared a riotous welcome home for Mayor Cerofolino, went on a rampage around town instead, and stormed the house of the Nofri family. A special squad of carabinieri has been guarding the house ever since. "It's not easy," said ex-Communist Italo Nofri, "but it shows what Communists are really like...
There was little reason to believe that Rhee would not repeat, or even better, his sweep of previous years. His chief rival, Democratic Party Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky (Shin Ikhi), had died while campaigning (TIME, May 14). His only other challenger, ex-Communist Cho Bong Am, had gone into hiding, claiming to have received threats of assassination. Of six candidates for the vice presidency, all had professed support of Rhee except John M. Chang, Shinicky's running mate. Rhee had confidently given his official backing to Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly...
...into trouble late last year, after it bought for one of its Negro salesmen a $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P. on the theory that it would help him in his dealings with Negro customers. The White Sentinel, a sewer sheet published in St. Louis by John Hamilton, an ex-Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies were circulated in Mississippi's Delta region, where Falstaff...
...find their relative's body. When at last the Reds were driven out, the local peasants were too afraid to talk. One ancient sampan man confessed that he had heard the shots and described the area where the murder had taken place. He promptly disappeared. An old ex-Communist surrendered to Diem's forces and admitted his son had taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled to the north with the Communist troops. At Diem's urging, the old man was sent north in secret to find his son. He came back...