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John Foster Dulles left a lot unexplained when he tried John Carter Vincent last week. The State Department's Loyalty Board had found Vincent innocent of any disloyal action. Dulles, himself, maintained that the career officer was not a security risk. Yet, Dulles cased him out of the State Department as failing to meet standards "required at this critical time...
...protest. But it simply touched off a fresh storm to the south, in the new village of Oradour. The villagers lowered their tricolor, removed from its place of honor the Croix de Guerre awarded by the government to mark Oradour's ordeal, dispatched an irate protest to President Vincent Auriol: "Oradour, which until now recalled Nazi brutality, will in the future be remembered as a symbol of unpunished crime...
...Vincent Van Gogh...
After a twelve-week warmup, the bare-stage version of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body (TIME, Dec. 22) began its Broadway run last week. The show starring Judith Anderson, Tyrone Power and Raymond Massey, had already covered 14,000 miles, given 80 performances m 60 cities. Most of Manhattan's critics gave John Brown & Co. columns of raves. The dissenter: John Chapman, of the tabloid Daily News, recommended the show to those who "are looking for a nap. . . It was only duty which kept me from dozing through a large part...
...conference of U.S. business and religious leaders in Columbus. Among its sponsors: Missionary-Educator Frank Laubach, who has taught millions of Asians and Africans to read through his international literacy program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money...