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Divorced. Arthur Koestler, 48, Hungarian-born ex-Communist writer of political novels (Darkness at Noon) and politico-mystical essays (The Yogi and the Commissar); by his second wife, Mamaine Paget Koestler, 36; after almost four years of marriage, no children; in London...
President Eisenhower approved the retirement of two federal judges who had presided over some historic trials. The jurists: Missouri's Albert L. Reeves, 80, an appointee of Warren G. Harding who sat at the trial of Kansas City Politico Tom Pendergast (income tax evasion) and who last November passed death sentences on the Greenlease kidnapers; New York's Vincent L. Leibell, 70, an F.D.R. appointee who last year handed a three-year perjury sentence to William W. Remington, former government economist who had denied Communist ties...
...Boston politico James Michael Curley told a capacity New Lecture Hall audience last night at the Harvard Law School Forum that he was a staunch McCarthy supporter...
...Muted Right. The Eisenhower Administration is also profoundly and explicitly conservative, and it rises specifically to the defense of ancient verities. But this awakens no more friendly response from British conservatives than American progressivism evokes from the left. With the conservatives, the trouble is not dogma but politico-sclerosis...
...20th century fiction, has frequently passed this test with lovable scamps, e.g., Gulley Jimson (The Horse's Mouth), Sara Monday (Herself Surprised). Chester Nimmo, who made his debut in Gary's last novel, Prisoner of Grace (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), is no scamp but a fireballing politico who marries into money, gets elected to Parliament, enters the Cabinet and finally becomes Lord Nimmo, without ever losing his missionary zeal or his sense of political destiny. Except the Lord,* which takes Chester Nimmo back in point of time to his mid-Victorian boyhood and young manhood, asks, retrospectively...