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...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...
Last week the Communist Party of Connecticut, like Ruth McKenney's Cleveland Sunday school, turned her out. With her went her husband, Richard Bransten, her Hollywood collaborator and onetime Washington correspondent, under the name of Bruce Minton, for the New Masses. Printing the eviction notice, the Daily Worker accused the Branstens of "attacking the basic line of the Party . . . slandering its leadership." Their conduct, frowned the Worker, was "characteristic of petty-bourgeois radicalism . . . and ultrarevolutionary phrase-mongering...
...Government. The nearest to such a functionary was, however, John Joseph McNamara, Chairman of the Board and a tea sampler for 14 years. Sitting first, he gathered other tasters around him in this order: Robert A. Lewis, Boston; Charles F. Hutchinson, Manhattan; A. P. Irwin, Philadelphia; Edward Bransten, San Francisco; Arthur T. Hellyer, Chicago; J. J. Shaw, Seattle...
...Fordyce, 3d; room 57, "Jupiter" D. L. Cohen, E. Bernat; room 58, "Boswell," M. Meisner; room 59, "Bumble Bee," G. G. Monks; Thayer, 60, "John L. Mapes," G. L. Van Bergen; Thayer 63, "E. W. White," E. Low, F. Winsor, Jr., room 64, "J. Carder," J. M. Bransten; room 65, "John Smith," W. H. Bieringer; room 66, "Doc Bray,"--C. F. Berry; room 67, "Artemus Ward,"--R. I. Lindsey; T. M. Brown; room 3-4, 7-8, "Sub-Debs," W. J. Means, O. C. Stamper, D. W. Bailey, A. S. Ellsworth, R. B. Hamblett, F. J. Robinson, W. L. Cummings...