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...Firebrand Siqueiros walked out of jail, was given a passport and money. In Chile he was again arrested, again released. Back in Mexico the police still officially wanted Exile Siqueiros. The Mexican Government was meanwhile paying him handsomely for his Chilian...
...office "somewhere in the Yard." You don't have to march in time or anything like that: just be nice and don't try to pull anything tricky. Once you get to the office, your troubles are almost over. As you stand in line and await your educational passport, feel in your wallet. Of course you have ten dollars resting expectantly between the bill folds. There are three other pieces of green paper, worth approximately one dollar apiece, snuggled in beside it, but don't touch them: they are for your athletic locker. And don't worry about getting home...
President Roosevelt freed Earl Browder, former General Secretary of the C.P., from Atlanta penitentiary, after he had served 14 months of his four-year sentence for passport fraud. His release, explained the President, "would have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feelings which may exist" about Browder's having been persecuted for his political views. His Hitler-style mustache shaved off, thinner and greyer than when he started his term, the Kansas-born Communist leader hopped a train. Out of jail, out of a job, temporarily out of a cause, Browder went quietly home to Yonkers...
...after he arrived home on a Norwegian freighter a friend called, asked: "Do you remember Annalee Whitmore?" At Stanford she had worked on the college paper with him. Now a scriptwriter for MGM, she wanted help to get a passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced one day to his mother: "That girl's damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place...
...solicitous French Government to break the news to the next of kin when soldiers were killed in action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted by "culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which one of his chiefs was addicted." The chief frequented "a unique...