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Charles E. Wyzaneki, Jr.--U.S. district judge for the District of Massachusetts since 1942. During War, lend-lease administrator for a time. Overseer to the University. One-time lecturer on government
...tribute to Mike Romanoff that some of his friends have now elevated him to the rank of king, and that anyone is willing to lend him anything like $25,000. Twenty years ago, the New Yorker published a five-part Profile on him because he then had the dubious honor of being the most fabulous and incredible impostor alive, with the added distinction of having just been deported to France for allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent...
...political activity outside the theater. Her sympathies for the world's downtrodden, by her own account, have led her twice to visit Russia. In 1945 she was the Soviet government's honored guest. Her sympathies have also led her to attend countless Red-inspired rallies and to lend her name to various Communist-front crusades. Playwright Hellman, who once described herself as "the greatest meeting-goer in the country," went last week to meet the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...millionaires" to help out in NRA. His old friend Harry Hopkins-whom he had met at a Long Island croquet party in pre-New-Deal days-eventually pulled him into the White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist dream, was skeptical of the Kremlin's power politics as early as 1943. Two years later he officially warned Washington...
...father's third wife is outstanding in a generally admirable cast. Abbie played by Priseilla Amidon is also excellent; she catches every nuance of change as passion makes its erratic inroads on her grasping egotism. Finally Larry Gates, though competent lets his flights from peacefulness to high fury lend a note of unevenness to what should have been a consistent character. The other members of the cast were all credible New Englanders, a tribute to the direction of Henry Weinstein...