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...Spotlight. It was Gerhart (he says) who got sister Ruth tossed out of the party in 1925 (she now edits an anti-Stalinist newspaper, which the Communists call "a gutter sheet"). Gerhart went on to Moscow, presumably as a reliable Comintern cog. From then on his role was that of many a Red agent-tours of duty in the Far East, in Spain with the Loyalists, back to Germany, then to France when Hitler rose to power. Eisler and his wife got out of France in 1941 on a U.S. transit visa, stayed in New York City when regulations blocked...
...Sanders Theatre the week of November 11. In the title role, playing the dissatisfied man who destroys and then tries to re-create the world, is Theodore Allegretti '47 of Eliot House. Allegretti also played the title role in HDC's "Playboy of the Western World." Sharing the spotlight, Robert Lubchansky '48, will play the part of Alter Ego, whom Adam creates with the hope of embodying in him all the things he would liked to have been himself...
...comforts had solved neither Labor nor Tory problems. Energetic House Leader Herbert Morrison had his hands full with once-shy Labor left-wingers who had learned procedural ropes, were now ready to take the spotlight. They wasted no time in embarrassing one of their own ministers. When slim, tense Fred Bellenger made his first utterance in the House as War Minister, they pounced on him with "shocked surprise" at the two-year sentences for mutiny passed on 243 paratroopers in Malaya. Because of "intolerable" living conditions, the men, all privates, had refused to stand parade. One young paratrooper requested...
...midnight blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...
Leaving their wounded bleeding on the floor inside, the defeated garrison of Cantrell-Mansfield followers filed out, hands high in the air. Under a glaring spotlight beamed on the damaged entrance, the onetime law of McMinn County squinted wearily at a jeering, taunting...