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...Noah's relationship with God, is too often stretched to the point of flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into a top-flight actor. Janice Rule is awfuly pretty, if slightly monotonous in her interpretation, and both Martin Ritt and Leon Janney enter into Odets' idea of the Flood as a human parable as sons Shem...
...weeks ago the main speaker at the PU meeting was Simon Gerson, secretary of the Communist Party of New York. Next week's featured attraction will be Col. Robert R. McCormick, Yale '03. Speakers in the past have included Harold Stassen, Robert Taft, Norman Thomas, Earl Browder, Justice Robert H. Jackson, and Justice Tom Clark...
...party reins when the eleven Communist bosses (convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60, national committee member and New York Daily Worker columnist; Party Theoretician Alexander Trachtenberg, 65, a product of Russia and Yale; Simon Gerson, 41, onetime candidate for New York City councilman and longtime party newspaperman...
...Dolly") Thackrey (who is also the owner) was for Tom Dewey. Last week the Thackreys outdid themselves. In a four-page election supplement, readers were not only told which local candidates the Post Home News favored, but which ones the Thackreys disagreed on. Example: Thackrey favored Communist Simon W. Gerson for city council; his wife endorsed Jack Kranis, Democratic and Liberal Party candidate...
Next day the co-editors got an irate letter from the help. Sixty-seven staffers (including the executive, managing, and city editors) wanted it known that they emphatically disagreed with both the Thackreys: with Ted chiefly for indorsing Wallace, Communist Gerson and eight candidates of the Commy-controlled American Labor Party, and with Dolly for indorsing one of the A.L.P. men. The staffers wrote: "The impression must prevail, among this newspaper's readers, that those who write for it and produce it daily are, like one of you, for the triumph of Henry Wallace, of many Communist Party members...