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...Communist policy in liberal organizations, unions and government agencies. In the anniversary edition a list by Max Eastman of liberals who have sacrificed ''moral character" by kowtowing to Russian totalitarianism includes Max Lerner of Manhattan's tabloid PM, Paul Robeson, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker and Editor Freda Kirchwey of the liberal weekly Nation...
...Editor Freda Kirchwey of The Nation last week felt what a paratrooper feels when his chute opens. Her request for emergency contributions, sent out several weeks ago to The Nation's friends and subscribers (TIME, March 1), clicked. Reported Editor Kirchwey: "The response . . . has been so generous and so prompt that I feel certain . . . The Nation's immediate future is secure...
...life preserver was thrown by whip-smart, likable Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, 48, who bought the Nation from Maurice Wertheim in 1937 for two reasons: 1) she wanted to maintain it as a voice for leftism; 2) she hoped to make it selfsupporting. Her new plan: to transfer the magazine's ownership from The Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that...
...Freda Kirchwey started sending out another 10,000 letters, confidently expected to get the $25,000 needed to cover 1942's deficit and provide a backlog for 1943. The U.S. Treasury has been asked to rule that contributions are taxdeductible, "on the ground that the Nation is a nonprofit corporation for educational purposes." If contributions are insufficient, which is unlikely, Editor Kirchwey will retrench drastically, try any expedient to avoid the Nation's death...
...passengers, 138 were U.S. citizens-an ambulance corps headed for service with the British in Egypt, missionaries going to their posts in central Africa, newspapermen bound for actual and potential theaters of war. Among those aboard had been Michael Kirchwey Clark, son of the Nation's Editor Freda Kirchwey; John W. Ryan; Philip Faversham, actor son of the late Actor WTilliam Faversham; Charles John Vincent Murphy, a veteran of the 1934 Byrd Antarctic expedition and an editor of FORTUNE and David Scherman, LIFE photographer who photographically pioneered U.S. bases in the Caribbean and scooped the world with views...