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...C.I.O. was hopping mad because a pamphlet that presented the steel workers' case for pay increases was returned by Army censors as unmailable to soldiers...
Bishop Oxnam has made three trips to the Soviet Union. His admiration for Russia earned him a page and a half in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. In 1936, when Dr. Oxnam was made Bishop of the Omaha Area, Mrs. Billing got out a special anti-Oxnam pamphlet which messengers distributed at Omaha's eight Methodist churches...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...
...handful of dust, Eve from one of his ribs, could they have had navels? The question is almost as old as Adam. North Carolina's Congressman Carl Thomas Durham and his House Military Affairs subcommittee are not sure of the answer: they have attacked as Communist a pamphlet containing a cartoon which suggests that Adam & Eve did have navels. The cartoon (TIME, Jan. 31) is in The Races of Mankind (400,000 copies distributed), a 10? popularization of currently accepted scientific views about race which argues that any race of mankind is just as capable as any other...
...girl and four men were sentenced to three to 20 years for distributing a pamphlet which attacked President Wilson's policy of intervention in Russia. A Mrs. Clark remarked: "I wish Wilson was in hell, and if I had the power, I would put him there." The court which tried her held that the President could not be in hell unless dead; Mrs. Clark had therefore threatened the President's life and was guilty of sedition...