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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian expert for the anti-Communist weekly New Leader, Contributing Editor David J. Dallin gets his information chiefly from Russian newspapers and magazines. Like Russian specialists on other U.S. newspapers and magazines, Dallin gets his view of things behind the Iron Curtain by piecing together bits of news and information in Soviet periodicals. Recently, Dallin reported an alarming discovery; Federal Government bureaus had seized such magazines as Bolshevik (which changed its name this month to Kommunist) and Ogonek, thus depriving Dallin and others of an "important source of knowledge and weapon in the cold...
Finance. Eugene Millikin of Colorado, one of the Senate's ablest legislators and a tax expert...
...Atomic Energy (Senate & House). New York's W. Sterling ("Stub") Cole, who in 1950 opposed the decision to go ahead with the hydrogen bomb, felt the country's defense program leaned too heavily on mass aerial bombardment. One of the hardest workers in Congress and an expert in the committee room, Cole is widely respected for his industry, fair-mindedness and good judgment. An internationalist, he was one of the early Eisenhower supporters...
...Expert Help. Most revealing of the tributes was a speech by China's No. 2 labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
Margaret Sullavan, though uneven, brings far more integrity to the playing of Hester Collyer than Rattigan does to the part. The expert Alan Webb is floored as the husband; as the playboy, James Hanley comes off much better in the play's best role. As somebody who would love and cherish Hester if he could, he perhaps reflects something in Rattigan himself. Rattigan seems not so much unwilling to do right by his material as incapable...