Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Craig Biddle, 68, gay blade of the mauve decade, socialite, sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Wakefield, R.I. Brother of famed Marine Jujitsu Instructor Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, uncle of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Craig Biddle was a society leader on two continents, ran two showplace mansions (Lauranto in Radnor, Pa., Nethercliffe in Newport), played Davis Cup tennis, married three times...
...wordy script is often highly entertaining; yet some of the sharpest stuff is purely visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...
Jozef Cyrankiewicz, Socialist leader and Poland's Premier, rejected Gomulka's invitation. He said: "Our party is and will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive...
...headquarters on the Rue La Fayette and the four lieutenants set up shop in a grey two-story building on the Rue Mademoiselle, flanked by a bakery and a barbershop. Jouhaux refused to take the top post. He may change his mind, but if he does not, the likeliest leader is small, dark, shy Robert Bothereau, 51, a metal worker and longtime Jouhaux follower...
Died. Martha Hillard MacLeish, 91, retired educator, welfare-work leader, mother of Poet Archibald MacLeish, head of Rockford (Ill.) College (1884-88) when women's colleges were still a novelty; in Glencoe...