Word: ginsberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Communist Agent Walter Krivitsky, onetime Chief of Military Intelligence in Western Europe, publicized Stalin's undercover activities in the Saturday Evening Post, accurately forecast the Nazi-Communist Pact, Communists blandly asserted there was no such Krivitsky, featured a creepy New Masses article: "General Krivitsky, you are Shmelka Ginsberg!" At 10:30 one morning last week there appeared before the Committee a slight, thin-faced, intense man of 40 who was introduced by Chairman Dies as his most important witness to date. He was Walter Krivitsky...
Said he, he was born Samuel Ginsberg in the Polish Ukraine, took the name Krivitsky when he became a Communist in 1919. Lighting one cigaret from another, wincing as cameramen exploded flashlight bulbs, he unfolded in five hours of testimony an extraordinary story of the degeneration of a political party that, as he pictured it, had begun as an ardent movement for remaking the world and had turned into the instrument of an imperialist power. He said that Stalin dictated the policies of the U. S. Communist Party and that Russia financed...
Three months ago the Communist New Masses gleefully revealed that one Walter G. Krivitzky, exiled Russian general who was publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, was really one Shmelka Ginsberg (TIME, May 22). In April General Krivitzky had claimed that Stalin was trying to team up with Hitler, and the New Masses took a lot of trouble to discredit him. Last week, while the Communist press was stammering explanations of the Russo-German treaty (see above), the Post bought nearly a full page in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago papers to boast that it had predicted just...
...Says the New Masses: Krivitsky-Ginsberg never was in Russia, never was a Soviet official, is a fake. To these guns it sticks. TIME sticks to no guns...
Author, Author's maestro is Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman (Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge), who manfully keeps gagging while a collection of fictioneers ad lib stories to fit mystery-tale situations contributed by listeners. Sample situation Why did Little Nell scorn Dick Goodfellow to marry Squire Sourpuss? Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds...