Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names: Alfred K. Stern, 59, of Fargo, N. Dak., Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University and Chicago; Martha Dodd Stern, 48, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1933-37) William...
Duration of Stay: Indefinite, said Stern in Red Prague last week. The U.S. is caught up in "spy hysteria" to the point that "war budgets can be passed, disarmament conferences torpedoed and peaceful coexistence deferred." His exception was the U.S. Supreme Court, "one of the most liberal bodies in the U.S. in recent times." "We are visiting this peace-loving country," he said, "and we are enjoying an interesting and restful trip." Another announcement of the week, from Moscow: the U.S.S.R. next year will publish Martha Dodd's latest book, The Searching Light...
Last week before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Boris Morros identified the woman. She was, said he, Martha Dodd Stern, the Communist-minded daughter of William E. Dodd, onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany in the Roosevelt Administration. The U.S. already knew a lot about the activities of Martha Stern and her wealthy husband Alfred, who had been hiding out in Mexico and dodging extradition and indictment as members of Jack Soble's spy network. But last week it learned more. The Sterns had flown from Mexico City on a Dutch airliner, were said...
...Roger MacDougall's long-run London stage hit, the film gets on splendidly as long as it rambles puckishly in the classrooms and dormitories, spying on the rebellious antics of Ferndale School's mischievous boys. But when it suddenly converts its juvenile comics into a pack of stern little pacifists campaigning for world peace, it grows about as hilarious as a U.N. committee session on genocide...
Following a stern P. & G. code for company officers, he spent a third of his time in unpaid civic service, directed the framing of a master plan for improving Cincinnati, headed Red Cross and Community Chest drives, became trustee of the city's Institute of Fine Arts, a member of the executive committee of the Summer Opera Association, Harvard overseer, an adviser to the University of Cincinnati. In 1955 President Eisenhower tapped him for the biggest lay-educational assignment of all: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Ike was impressed by the way McElroy steered a conglomeration...