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Only three of the witnesses denied that they had ever been Communists. Among the 18 who refused an answer was Frederic Ewen, who retired from his position as assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College rather than state his politics. He finally did admit, after Senator Ferguson reassured him that...
Died. Irving Wexler, 63, alias Waxey Gordon, onetime (1905) pickpocket who advanced through stickups, slugging, dope-peddling and murder into big-time racketeering; of a heart attack; on Alcatraz. During Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555...
In the best American tradition, John Wayne started his trade at the bottom-as a property boy on the old Fox lot on Hollywood's Western Avenue. He was then a lanky young football player at the University of Southern California, equipped with an amiable grin, formless energy, and...
Congress, which has investigated Communists on the stage, screen and radio, last .week got around to the U.S. press. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee appeared Charles W. Judson, 42. He freely admitted that, under the party alias of "Peter Steele," he had been a member of the Communist...
Died. Archduke Maximilian Eugene von Hohenberg of Habsburg, 56, younger brother of Charles Francis Joseph, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary; of a heart attack; at his home in exile, a hotel in Mce, France. Orphaned in 1914 when his mother and his father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, were assassinated at Sarajevo...