Word: paton
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When Father Trevor Huddleston, head of St. Peter's Anglican Mission in Johannesburg, first heard the news, he knew that for one of his students it meant the opportunity of a lifetime. As a result of a visit that Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton had made while in the U.S., Kent School in Connecticut was offering for the first time a scholarship to a South African boy, and Father Huddleston found just the lad to take it. Last April he began to make the arrangements to send a 16-year-old Negro named Stephen Ramasodi...
William Cowperthwaite was a competent King Hildebrand. The stiffness and inflexibility of his acting, which might have detracted from another role, provided a strong contrast to Wayne Paton's brilliant performance as King Gama. Paton's portrayal of the irascible hunchback was worthy of Martyn Green, both for its cheerful leering and its precise enunciation. Nell Davenport was equally well cast as Lady Blanche; her voice, however, was not quite equal to the range of the score. Merle Moses, as Lady Psyche, effectively contrasts here susceptibility to Lady Blanche's austerity. Melissa, played by Sally Cameron, displayed a spirit...
COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND, Washington bureau chief of the Republican New York Herald Tribune : THE more the Administration's explainers explain the dismissal of John Paton Davies as a "security risk" on the ground that he showed bad "judgment," principally while serving in China ten years ago, the less it satisfies many in Washington who listen to it. Mr. Davies has devoted his whole adult life to the Foreign Service. The latest security board to hear the evidence - eight previous security boards having cleared him - found Mr. Davies completely loyal, completely devoted to the United States and never imprudent with...
...case of John Paton Davies shows that little has been learned. The albatross of incompetence was hung around Davies' neck, and he was summarily dismissed from the Service last week because he advocated limited rapprochement with the Chinese Communists in the gloomy days of the early '40's when the Japanese were kicking the Nationalists back into the hills...
Last week's abrupt dismissal of career diplomat John Paton Davies on security grounds has heightened the atmosphere of tension in the State Department and may further discourage qualified college students from entering the foreign service, three University faculty members warned yesterday...