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There was another problem. As a Brooklyn youth in 1936, LaVenia was vice president of the American Law Students Association-and McCarthy himself had denounced the association in 1950 as a Communist-front "affiliate." Said LaVenia: he had really been working against the party-liners...
...famed Senate speech listing 81 State Department security cases, Joe McCarthy reached Case No. 54. He said: "This individual has been connected with a number of Communist-front organizations . . . [He] is presently employed in the State Department." Case No. 54 was the only one of McCarthy's 81 ever indicted. In court last week, the case collapsed...
...main, however, the white students have maintained a detachment bordering on disinterest. It is noteworthy that there is virtually no evidence that Communist or Communist-front groups have tried to exploit the more sensitive aspects of the situation on any campus . . . Nowhere has the admission of Negroes produced anything like a boycott, nor has it been made a prime political issue...
...Listed twelve Communist-front organizations as subject to the Subversive Activities Control Board's restrictions and scrutiny...
Amidst the news of its big change, Collier's more quietly attended to a small one. Editor Roger Dakin, who recently fired Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon after Collier's had received unsupported charges that Moon once belonged to Communist-front organizations (TIME, April 27), last week fired Fiction Editor MacLennan Farrell, 30. Farrell, who had been Moon's boss, had refused to fire Moon himself and had also signed a protest from Collier's entire fiction staff against the discharge. Editor Dakin insisted that Farrell's firing had nothing to do with his argument...