Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist press operates on the racist proposition that a Negro can do no wrong, an assumption that is as offensive to most U.S. Negroes as its racist opposite. But last week Entertainment Columnist David Platt of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker discovered that no party-liner dares wander from that particular line, even for an instant. In printing a list of "lavatory literature," i.e., pocket-size picture magazines published by the "capitalist press," Critic Platt made the mistake of including Jet, the breezy Negro weekly (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952) that can lift a skirt with the best of them...
...other testimony Melish denied that the American-Soviet Friendship Council is Red-dominated and contradicted testimony by such ex-Communists as John Lautner and Fordham Professor Louis Budenz (who had testified that Melish was a party member). After testifying that he had written two stories for the Daily Worker, Melish was asked whether he knew that the Worker is the "official organ" of the Communist Party. His answer: "That's hearsay." Pressed to identify Communists who came to him for advice, Melish stood on his cloth: he claimed "ministerial privilege" to keep their confidences...
...Naziism, a single-minded purpose which had forced him to lead a double life. During World War II, he served simultaneously in the Abwehr (Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and as a British secret-service contact. He was legal adviser to the Nazis' Lufthansa Airline and a secret anti-Nazi resistance worker. One memorable day ten years ago last week. Otto John landed at war-battered Tempelhof Airfield, where his brother, Hans, waited...
...Tass representative was not a permanent MVD worker," he added, "he was invariably called in to do that work." Petrov explained that only the secret police chief in each country knows what actual rank each Tass correspondent holds. Petrov's description of Tassmen's MVD mission: to pass themselves off as working newspapermen while they gather information for the Russian secret police...
...material: script, camera, cutting, props, the handsome set constructed from his ideas, the stars he has Hitched to his vehicle. Actor Stewart happily downplays his boyish charm, comes through strongly as Hitchcock's principal agent in creating suspense out of casual incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter, who plays a visiting nurse...