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Freedom of Soul. At one point the hearing came close to winding up as a melodrama. While Brooklyn College's Biology Professor Harry G. Albaum was testifying about his gradual seduction by the Communist Party, a hefty, ham-handed man slipped into a rear-row seat in the hearing room. Recognized by an alert committee aide as Constantin Radzie, who was born in Russia and became a U.S. citizen in 1937, the spectator was served with a quick subpoena and taken to the witness stand. Scowling like a wrestler, Radzie denied that he had been sent by the party...
...said such reassuring things as: "This dance has no symbolic meaning. It's just a dance." The single setting showed a moonlit temple courtyard crowded with men in colored turbans, sitting comfortably behind gilded consoles, beating on xylophone-like strips of metal with wooden hammers. In the rear hung three huge, deep-humming brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered -and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum...
...small unit, located in the trunk compartment and controlled from the dashboard, will work like an office air-conditioner, pumping cold air into the car through a grill behind the rear seat...
...Crane-Simplex, which in 1915 cost $30,000 and was guaranteed for the life of its owner. Designed to look like a luxurious yacht, it sported brass funnels and a propeller in the rear to hold on two spare wire wheels. The wooden trim and running boards were teakwood. Yet for all its wonderful nautical absurdity, it could do 75 m.p.h. Unfortunately for the guarantee, the company folded a few years after it started...
...Chevrolet, Studebaker and Plymouth. So far unnamed and unpriced, the car is 60 in. high, weighs 2,800 Ibs., midway between a Ford and a Henry J, has a new 100 h.p. engine which will get about 20 miles per gal. A one-piece, curved windshield and a large rear window give it more glass area than most low-priced cars. Hudson hopes to get a four-door model into production by Thanksgiving, will add a two-door version later. Estimated production: 200,000 of the new cars next year, in addition to Hudson's standard line (current annual...