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...case before Judge Smith was a $200,000 damage suit brought by Larry Adler, the harmonica player, and Paul Draper, the dancer, against Mrs. John T. McCullough, Greenwich, Conn, housewife (TIME, Dec. 5), who had publicly objected to their performing at a local concert...
...Cassini ("Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American), Columnists George Sokolsky, Westbrook Pegler, Bill Cunningham and Radiorator Fulton Lewis Jr., and backed by some $28,000 (mostly in small bills) from thousands of sympathizers, had made the only defense she could: that her charge of pro-Communism against Adler and Draper was the truth...
...attorneys brought in witnesses to try to prove that Adler and Draper had supported a number of Communist fronts. They had performed for some, including the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which had nourished Gerhart Eisler while he was in the U.S. and helped him in his escape to Russia. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz and two former undercover FBI agents testified flatly that they had known of Adler and Draper in the party as Communist entertainers...
...their defense, Adler and Draper said they had supported Allied causes during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Adler testified that he was a Democrat, a New Dealer and a loyal U.S. citizen: the fact that Government agencies had named certain organizations as Red fronts did not make them so as far as he was concerned. Draper just as vehemently maintained his loyalty. He thought, he said, that Stalin "has gone out of his mind." He said: "Never in my whole life have I ever deliberately advanced the cause of Communism ... It hurts people and it hurts nations...
...Question of Duty. Under crossexamination, Hester McCullough, wife of a picture editor of TIME, stuck to her guns. Asked if she thought Adler and Draper were traitors, she answered, "Yes," and asserted that she still thought she had done a civic duty in trying to keep them out of Greenwich. "You can't sit back like a bunch of capitalistic fat cats and do nothing," she said angrily, "when these people come here for large fees...