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Mrs. Raissa Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S. Communist Leader Earl Browder (see cut), was able to "dissipate the doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate.
Guggenheimers
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation made its annual award—69 fellowships to specialists in fields from poetry to plant pathology. Five of the $2,500 grants went to men in active war service:
Sergeant Karl Shapiro, poet, now in the Army, serving in the South Pacific.
Corporal Gail Thompson Kubik, composer, in the Army, serving in the European Theater.
Lieut. George P. Cuttino, University of Iowa historian, in the Army, Mediterranean Theater.
Melvin Calvin, University of California chemist, now doing war research.
Joseph Mickey, University of Chicago ornithologist, now doing war research.
Other winners:
Henry Pringle, biographer (William Howard Taft; Theodore Roosevelt).
Martha Graham, outstanding U.S. dancer, (TIME, Jan. 10).
Robert Shaw, sensational vocal arranger for Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, director of Manhattan's Collegiate Chorale (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943).
William N. Takahashi, U.S.-born Japanese professor of plant pathology at the University of California.