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The Popular Front. Young Lawyer Blum helped defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He became a protege and confidant of the great French Socialist leader Jean Leon Jaures. But Blum's approach was steadfastly intellectual: he seemed to disdain practical politics. The assassination of Jaures and the shock of World War...
Smathers came through handsomely. He made a big name for himself in prosecuting a Florida white-slave case. During World War II he served as a Marine officer in .the Pacific. After the war, the Senator helped his protege run for Congress. Smathers got elected to the House, and pleased...
Monsignor Stephen Fermoyle, Irish, good-looking and rising fast in the church, was in deep trouble. Only seven years after his ordination as a priest in Rome, he was back in the Holy City as a member of the Vatican Secretariat of State. He stood well in the Vatican, was...
Bloody Ground. The eldest son of a Scottish immigrant, Virginia-born Charles Taylor wanted to be an electrical engineer but, unable to afford college, switched to insurance "because I could work with figures." He rose to the vice presidency of Richmond's South Atlantic Life Insurance Co., went to...
* Played by Viennese Anton Karas, a Carol Reed protege, whose recordings from the score quickly became bestsellers in British music shops (TIME, Nov. 28).