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During the war, Gissen served four years in the U.S. Army, two of them in Europe with the 26th Infantry Division. A Vermonter and a graduate (1932) of Clark University in Worcester, Mass, he was a book reviewer and article writer for the New Republic before the war. After being mustered out, he joined TIME in 1946. In his job Gissen's wartime experience often comes in handy - for instance, last year, when General Ike Eisenhower's book, Crusade in Europe, was ready for publication...
There were none of the boisterous des-camisado parades and mass meetings which have usually marked the great day. Instead, hardly a newspaper appeared throughout all Argentina to remind the workers what day it was. To protest the government's failure to settle the three-week-old strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21), printers had chosen that day to call a nationwide stoppage...
Bach Festival Society (Sat. 12:15 p.m., NBC). B Minor Mass with 150-voice choir, organ and orchestra...
...first filmed in 1922, was a brawling forerunner of today's semidocumentary, despite a sugary love story and the presence of Clara ("the It Girl") Bow, who was rolled aboard in a barrel. For the old silent version, Director Elmer Clifton persuaded the citizens of New Bedford, Mass, to supply the cash and most of the cast. Then he chartered a real whaler, and along with his cameramen and a crew of real whaling men, set out for the Caribbean to catch real whales...
...Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn't let anything good come of it. Charley recalls that when, in the middle of the kid-glove slugfest...