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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful C.G.T. labor organization is only a quarter of what it was; 3) the circulation of L'Humanité is down two-thirds; Ce Soir and half a dozen provincial dailies have folded. The party still has an elite of probably 30,000 hard-core Communists, but the rank & file have been gravely affected by the Moscow damning of two of their great heroes: Old Communist Andre Marty and World War II Resistance Leader Charles Tillon. Now "our dear Maurice" would put things right...
...Believe in You (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a British-made film that sets out to show the human side of the law. It succeeds in its aim all too well. Taking as its central characters a couple of probation officers attached to a London magistrates' court, the picture piles enough melodrama on its theme to convince even the most doubting moviegoer that probation officers and probationers are human, after...
...large improvements necessary, both based on the educational function of the College and both correctable within the existing system. Though the College should not apportion freshmen by athletic ability, school, or geographical background, neither should the less popular Houses be a dumping ground for freshmen whose grades rank under Group IV. Each Housemaster should be required to accept an equal number of Group V and VI students...
What visiting West German critics saw were rank upon rank of slavish, posterlike pictures and sculpture dedicated to tested propaganda themes. They bore such titles as World Youth Festivals, To the Patriot Philipp Müller,* The First Furrow for the Collective Farm, and the styles were all obedient, School-of-Moscow realism. There were glorified scenes of farmers and construction workers, kindly Red soldiers surrounded by admiring children, ball-fisted strikers and heroic rioters-all with clear brows, stern eyes and rippling muscles...
...religious faith is more than politician's lip service. Writing in the April Reader's Digest, Roving Editor Stanley High, one of Ike's campaign advisers and once a Congregationalist lay preacher, explains that, in Ike's lexicon, the "spiritual" needs of the U.S. rank ahead of political or economic ones...