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...Catalogue. With that, Actor Hayden went back to work on his latest picture, Skid Row, and the committeemen turned to some less cooperative witnesses. Actor Will Geer, one of the Jeeter Lesters of Tobacco Road, strode nonchalantly to the stand and amiably refused to answer any questions about Communist membership: "This is an emotional and hysterical question. I stand on the rights of the Fifth Amendment." Less pleasantly, three minor Hollywood writers also defied the committeemen...
...lull between its hearings on Communism in Hollywood, the House Un-American Activities Committee last week issued another report on the doings of U.S. Reds and their supporters. The theme of the report this time was "The Communist 'Peace' Offensive," and the committeemen listed more than 350 prominent U.S. citizens-scientists, artists, "an inordinately large proportion of clerics"-who had signed up for "peace/' Russian-style. Well up on the list: Oscar Winners Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer and Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday (TIME, April...
Good Actor. Because of his frank statement, Parks did not seem to have much to worry about. The committeemen went out of their way to praise him as a "good American and a good actor." In Hollywood, Actor John Wayne, president of the anti-Communist Motion Picture Alliance, also rallied round: "I think it's fine that he had the courage to answer the questions and declare himself . . . The American public is pretty quick to forgive a person who is willing to admit a mistake...
...Kefauver committeemen rolled into the nation's largest city last week for the big finale to their investigation of organized crime in the U.S. Before they were done, they had made the legendary Frank Costello squirm in view of millions of television watchers, and provided titillating evidence that unobtrusive Frank Costello was just what they had claimed -the boss of one of the nation's two big crime syndicates (TIME, March 12). They had also charted some tortuous trails that led straight out of Costello's underworld and wound up in ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...symphonies, some 20 minor musical organizations and 600 school orchestras are being hurt by the same tax squeeze, said Blair. So is the Metropolitan Opera, which last year paid $410,000 in amusement taxes, wound up with a deficit of $430,000. Handing a sheaf of letters to committeemen, Blair told them: "Here [is] the answer to the question of what music means to the American people. What are you going to do about...