Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intelligent and hideously exciting melodrama. It has been well adapted by Hume Cronyn, but it was probably inevitable that in turning it into a movie for mass distribution, much of the edge would be blunted. The boys in the play-who were pretty clearly derived from the Loeb-Leopold case-were highly cultivated, effeminate esthetes. So was their teacher. Much of the play's deadly excitement dwelt in this juxtaposition of callow brilliance and lavender dandyism with moral idiocy and brutal horror. Much of its intensity came from the shocking change in the teacher, once he learned what...
...readers of the New Hampshire Morning Union (once owned by the late Frank Knox), 42-year-old Publisher William Loeb explained in a front-page editorial why he was running a two-column story on Wallace's visit. Wrote Loeb: "We are giving Henry Wallace . . . more space in our paper than [his visit] deserves . . . Because we dislike him so much, we want to be sure we are doing the right thing...
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...Liberal. Most U.S. liberals think of Niebuhr as a solid socialist who has some obscure connection with Union Theological Seminary that does not interfere with his political work. Unlike most clergymen in politics, Dr. Niebuhr is a pragmatist. Says James Loeb, secretary of Americans for Democratic Action: "Most so-called liberals are idealists. They let their hearts run away with their heads...
Bernard Conal, director of political organization for PCA, and James Loeb, executive director of the ADA, are also expected to garnish the list of speakers, while August Tyler, political director of the anti-Communist ILGWU-AFL, and George Markham, legislative director of the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur and Leather Workers-CIO are also expected to join the "faculty...