RADICALS: The Student

In the old days, Comrade Earl Browder slipped stealthily out of the country under an assumed name, toting a phony passport. But Passenger Browder's papers were all quite correct last week as he impatiently awaited the departure of a Stockholm-bound airliner from New York's LaGuardia Field.

The bona fide passport in his pocket described Browder's new occupation with the dignity befitting the publisher of Distributor's Guide, a journal of economic information for businessmen. Journalist Browder, however, seemed scarcely friendly to his colleagues.

Where was he going? "No comment."

To Russia, perhaps? "I have...

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