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...dive, Frank Gorman finished strong, and, aided by some unusually poor diving on the part of some of his opponents, jumped from eighth place to third. Frank Knight (409.6) of Army won the event, while Warren Frischmann (381.25) of Syracuse finished second. Army's Duke Gerhardt (329.45), Princeton's Alan Routh (318.85), and Yale's Jack Erickson (306.2) took the last three places...
Divorced. By Jane Powell, 24, cinemactress (Small Town Girl, Royal Wedding) : Gerhardt Anthony Steffen Jr., 30, professional skater turned insurance salesman, because he "spent his weekends skiing [or] playing tennis"; after nearly four years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...asked in 1949 for the suspension of the trials of the 12 top Communists. He solicited funds for the Civil Rights Congress which put up $50,000 bail for Gerhardt Eisler and financed the defense on the now convicted top Reds. He asked in 1951 for money to finance cargoes of supplies to send to Communist China. He solicited funds in 1952 for defense of the now convicted "second string" Communists. In all, 62 exhibits were presented to show that Burgum's "conduct coincided with the path of the Communist Party" during the past 20 years...
Like Confessions, the new movie wears documentary trimmings. Based on the true story of Pittsburgh's Matt Cvetic, who served the FBI for nine years as an undercover agent in the Communist Party, the picture uses Communist Big Shot Gerhardt Eisler (played by Konstantin Shayne) as one of its characters, bolsters its footage with newsreel shots of the uproar and street brawls the Reds organized during 1949's Manhattan trial of eleven U.S. Communist leaders. The personal torment of the picture's hero (Frank Lovejoy), suffering the bitter contempt of his anti-Communist son and brothers without...
This contribution was not complete until twenty-five years later, with the appearance of Dreiser's finest work, "An American Tragedy." Matthiessen traces the writer's career during that time in terms of his literary output. From the sympathetic portrait of the heroine of "Jennie Gerhardt"--based in some measure on the author's mother--Dreiser moved to a lengthy and only partly successful study of the "Merchant Prince" financiers who dominated the country during his youth, and by whom he was both attracted and repelled...