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...village of Mikofalva (pop. 1,100), 100 miles northeast of Budapest, is populated chiefly by Kelemens and Kovacses, who belong to the Paloc tribe, one of Hungary's oldest and toughest. For centuries, Kelemens and Kovacses have married only Kovacses and Kelemens, thus keeping outsiders from the village. They have not kept out Communism. The village has 250 card-holding party members. All Mikofalvians-Kelemens, Kovacses and Communists-are Roman Catholics...
...after a full, footloose year of going steady across two continents, Tyrone Power (divorced last January from Annabella) and Linda Christian (never married before) were busy with the final details of their wedding, to be solemnized this week in Santa Francesca Romana, one of the Eternal City's oldest churches...
With a fat, 28-page anniversary issue, Manhattan's Daily Worker last week marked its 25th birthday as the oldest Communist U.S. daily. There were greetings from such sister publications as France's L'Humanité, Britain's Daily Worker and Poland's Trybuna Ludu. (Russia's Pravda tactfully refrained from sending any message.) But there was no office celebration, and little to celebrate. Circulation was at a low 24,700 daily and 67,000 Sunday, finances were as shaky as ever. And sallow, hard-bitten Editor John Gates, who had trained for journalism...
...Wife: Oh, yes. I and the children go to this Baptist church on the corner. I am not a member, but if our oldest girl decides to join, I may join with...
...college educators was meeting. They were frightened out of town. Fortnight ago three men were arrested after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly, the Milledgeville Union Recorder (est. 1819) to raise its voice against the Ku Klux Klan. "It is time people quit winking at law violations," it declared. "This is not Germany or Russia . . ." The paper demanded a grand jury investigation...