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...charge, of course--just enough to invoke the Communist issue and thus justify, by the slick logic of the times, imputing the worst possible motives to Oppenheimer. Back in the thirties and early forties, he spoke with Communists and ex-Communists. He married someone who tasted Communism and spat it out. He joined and supported those organizations most vigorously opposed to Naziism, which to sensitive people then was as abhorrent as Communism is today. And so on. At the very worst, these were indiscretions. They are best explained by Oppenheimer himself as the result of the impact of a depression...
...neared a stone monument, erected to honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent of flowers with her blood...
Wisecracking Pianist Oscar Levant, 47. once described by Playwright S. N. Behrman as "a character who, if he did not exist, could not be imagined," had a headline-making spat with his wife June in Beverly Hills. June walked out. Figuring that she had gone home to mother. Oscar tried to phone her there, was told by the local operator that the line was busy and that he would have to wait half an hour. Cried Oscar: "In half an hour I'll be dead!" Said the operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help...
...first 24 hours regardless of "the race, the color or the creed." Even on last week's quiet night, teen-agers skulked in the lot across from the Howard apartment. Growled a cop to a young tough: "Why aren't you home watching Arthur Godfrey?" The youth spat on the sidewalk. Said he: "It's a free country...
While Ezra's trouble is chiefly with the police, Bill Willis and his wife are brought low by a prolonged marital spat. Myra is convinced that Bill is experimenting with her sister Joan, a physically overripe 15year-old who flaunts her charms with the naturalness of a dolphin showing off alongside. Before this gets ironed out, it becomes plain that Author Taylor has made almost as close a study of the jealous wife as he has of his Cap Cod types. Best friends of the Willises are the Bensons, whose "detestation of each other had gone so far that...