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...campaign, later became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, head of the Office of Price Administration, then the ambassador leading the U.S. economic mission to Greece, until 1947, when he joined former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurman Arnold and former Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas in forming one of Washington's leading law firms...
During his long ordeal, Douglas, who has few intimates, confided only in his wife, former Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford and former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who wrote the earlier, misleadingly optimistic press releases on Douglas' health. The four decided that Douglas should get a second opinion from Rehabilitation Specialist Dr. Howard Rusk, who had treated him earlier in New York City. Battling all the way, the old man was determined to miss as little court business as possible, though his appearances on the bench for oral arguments were constantly interrupted by spasms of pain. Two weeks...
Among presidential autographs, those most in demand are by Lincoln, Washington and John F. Kennedy. Almost any signed Lincoln document is worth at least $2,000; Abe's reply to a girl who had urged him to grow whiskers - "Do you not think people would call it a silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?"_sold for $20,000. A 1785 letter from Washington in which he refused "pecuniary reward" for his services to the young country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter...
...arranged some of the testimony elicited from suspected Communists and fellow travelers by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined than HUAC to sprinkle Stardust in order to germinate publicity...
...cast is fine. David Spielberg as Actor Parks poignantly tries to cling to a shard of dignity, and Allan Miller as Abe Burrows pulls more legs than the committee has. The real inquisitor is Bentley, who deals out a blame game that is dramatically deficient and devoid of charity...