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...misjudgment; the State Department's white paper of 1949, still the official line, holds that the Communist conquest of China had nothing to do with anything U.S. diplomats did or failed to do. And only last February, after a departmental hearing, State cleared the loyalty of John Carter Vincent, once the most influential of its Old China Hands. Secretary Dean Acheson himself gave Vincent "best wishes" and assurance of "full confidence...
Last week the President's Loyalty Review Board, which is a high court in such matters,† overruled State's vindication of John Carter Vincent. Said the LRB: "Without expressly accepting or rejecting," it had taken into account 1) ex-Communist Louis Budenz' testimony that Vincent was a Communist, and 2) the Senate Internal Security subcommittee's finding that Vincent had been a "principal fulcrum" for pro-Communist influence in the State Department...
Liveliest experiment in the U.S. theater last season-and the greatest triumph-was the brilliant, bare-stage reading of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951). Flushed by such success, Producer Paul Gregory has launched a prompt successor: Stephen Vincent Benét's 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning narrative poem, John Brown's Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout...
...voice-intones: "John Brown's body lies a mooolderin' in the grave." With the combined appeal of John Brown's stars and its story, there is no reason why Laughton shouldn't strike twice. But his fixed model should be the stage and Stephen Vincent Benet, not the air waves and Norman Corwin...
Whether by design or not, King reveals himself in his choice of heroes. Heading his list of the world's great naval commanders is John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent, whom Mahan, in heartfelt admiration, could only call "a man of adamant." In these pages, King is exposed as a man of obsidian, consciously modeling himself on Jervis. He was flattered when friends said he was so tough that he must shave with a blowtorch, and gave him a four-foot crowbar to use as a toothpick...