Word: riesel
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...million readers. Of such might, the mere remaining shadow is the Manhattan weekly, the New Leader. Under forced draft it pulls 43,000 readers-mostly among Manhattan and Hollywood malcontents and old Socialists who sigh for the good old days. Its assistant editor-tireless, 5 ft. 2 in. Victor Riesel-is also most of the New Leader's editorial staff (he writes under five noms de guerre and is the New Leader's Washington Bureau besides...
...main claim to distinction-as bellwether for exile and native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld. The raiders found no addresses...