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...Pictures, Inc. approved separation of the company's motion-picture and theater divisions, as provided by the consent decree between Paramount and the Department of Justice (TIME, March 7). As of next Jan. 1, President Barney Balaban will be head of a new Paramount Pictures, Inc., and Leonard Goldenson will become president of United Paramount Theaters, Inc., operating or owning 1,424 movie theaters...
...national conference announced the establishment of a National Foundation for Cerebral Palsy, to act as a clearinghouse of information and to coordinate local organizations throughout the country. Said Leonard Goldenson, a vice president of Paramount Pictures, Inc. and president of the new foundation: "We are in the same position today that the infantile paralysis people were 15 years ago. The big problem, and a costly one, is in training . . . the public...
...potent" and "sturdy" in this connection without its tongue in its cheek? Does TIME really not know that Rabbi Wolsey and his fellows represent a negligible minority within our honorably and stanchly Zionist Reform rabbinate? Is TIME so guileless that it does not recognize the intellectual quality of Rabbi Goldenson's words: "Zionists and the pleaders for a Jewish Army indirectly play into the hands of the anti-Semites?" Is TIME unaware of the century and a quarter of Jewish history during which Western Jewry did everything not to play into the hands of the anti-Semites...
From one of the council's members, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Manhattan, came a summary of the case against a Jewish Army: "I have never been able to accept the doctrine that establishing a Jewish Army or making Palestine a Jewish sovereign state would solve the Jewish problem. . . . Problems of human maladjustments are not solved at a distance or by proxy. If solved at all, they are solved in the places where they arise and by the persons most affected...
...years the Pittsburgh Platform has stood unchanged. To the conference members who, wearing no such beards of yarmulki as do their Orthodox brothers, looked much like a convention of doctors or dentists, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson key-noted in the Platform's vein: Let Jews beware of any current secular movement which tends to consider Judaism a civilization rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge...