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Brotherly Love. Gerhart Eisler is a chunky, bright-eyed, 49-year-old German who has been in the U.S. for five years. Last week he and his slender, 35-year-old wife, Brunhilda, were packed and read)' to sail to Germany. Then the State Department suddenly took back its permission for them to leave the U.S. In their almost bare $35-a-month New York City apartment, balding Gerhart Eisler spouted "ridiculous . . . stupid . . . nonsense" at the idea that he was a super-secret agent of Kremlin policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Brain | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...bosses and Mrs. Roosevelt got together in a traditionally smoke-heavy private dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slam-Bang in New York | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Molly Mayfield's identity is an office secret. Most Newsmen guess (though she sweetly denies it) that slender, five-foot-two Frances Foster, the Southern-accented wife of News Editor Jack Foster is Molly. Mrs. Foster is an old Denverite. She has lived there six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Molly | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...slender, 44-year-old Bishop Huang, who had arrived from China wearing a discarded G.I. uniform, the colorful service of consecration was both an end and a beginning. It was a reward for Christian work during the misery of war. Somehow he survived 265 bombings unscratched while he helped refugees, conducted services, directed an ambulance corps. He found time also to work among American soldiers, became known to thousands of G.I.s as the "Bishop of the Burma Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Challenge in Kunming | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...erstwhile Japanese prisoners that the Maryknollers chose last week as their new superior general. He is the Most Rev. Raymond A. Lane, 52, since 1940 Bishop of Fushun, Manchuria. A slender, freckled man with thinning red hair, he was born in Lawrence, Mass., turned down a chance for West Point, and turned away from business (with the Liggett drug chain) to become a priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shock Troops | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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