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Divorced. Arthur Koestler, 48, Hungarian-born ex-Communist writer of political novels (Darkness at Noon) and politico-mystical essays (The Yogi and the Commissar); by his second wife, Mamaine Paget Koestler, 36; after almost four years of marriage, no children; in London...
...case of Maurice Halperin, chairman of the department of Latin American regional studies, Boston University has all but fallen over backwards trying to be fair. In the past few years, ex-Communist Nathaniel Weyl has accused Halperin of attending Communist meetings in 1936; and ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley has testified that Halperin, while in the OSS, passed secret documents to her to be sent on to Moscow. But when Halperin took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before the Jenner Committee last March, the university refused to fire him. Reason for its decision: lack of "definite evidence." Not until Attorney...
...lessons for any fiction writer. The House by the Medlar Tree and Little Novels of Sicily were powerful stories about Sicilian peasants whose harshly tragic existence could not destroy their stubborn dignity. Another famed Italian brought out his first novel in eleven years; A Handful of Blackberries proved that ex-Communist Ignazio Silone knows where the rot of Communism lies and still has enough of his old novelist's skill to expose...
There is corroboration of Chambers' word on White. Ex-Communist Agent Elizabeth Bentley told congressional committees that White was a key man in the Red spy ring; that he not only delivered information to her associates, but also pushed Communists into strategic jobs. At a hearing of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on May 29, 1952, there was this exchange between Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson and Miss Bentley...
...national figure, evidence began to accumulate of how deeply the U.S. Government in the 1930s and '40s had been penetrated by Communists and their sympathizers. The scornful cartoons of the '30s, showing nervous "reactionaries" looking under the bed for Reds, lost their humor as one ex-Communist after another told his shocking story. There were, in sober truth, Reds under the bed-and not only under it. Emerging and increasing evidence of this was politically embarrassing to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party...