Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly newsletter dedicated to digging up "facts to combat Communism," Counterattack was started in 1947 by three ex-FBI men. Of the three, Ted C. Kirkpatrick, the newsletter's impressive spokesman, quickly became known as "Mr. Counterattack." Though Counterattack's circulation, at $24 a year, never grew beyond 7,500, Kirkpatrick's name and the newsletter's influence stretched far beyond the small circle of readers. When Counterattack published Red Channels, a report on Communist influence on radio and TV (TIME, Sept. n, 1950), Kirkpatrick often spoke defending it from the charge that it was smearing...
Last week Mr. Counterattack himself quit the newsletter for "primarily personal reasons." Kirkpatrick said he was considering another job with an anti-Communist group, but would not give up the battle against the army of critics who have sniped at Counterattack and Red Channels. Said he: "People don't appreciate what you've done. There have been so many attacks ... of a personal nature." Kirkpatrick is the second of the three founders to quit. A year ago Kenneth Bierly left after he had come to the conclusion that Counterattack had "changed into an opinion and editorial sheet-short...
Both Kirkpatrick and Bierly had good financial reasons for clearing out. Although Counterattack has won a measure of dubious fame, it has barely been able to keep its head above water. It never paid salaries of more than $6,000 a year, and it paid only a few dividends of $1 each on its 1,000 shares of stock. Its special research jobs for corporations, ad agencies, unions, etc. now account for about 5% of its income; the rest comes from Counterattack subscriptions. But by next fall, Keenan, who now has a controlling interest, expects...
...coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched...
...brutality, the Nazis proceed to murder the Kharkov Communists, not bothering to distinguish between active satraps of Stalin and mere party hand-raisers. But in the bowels of the city, the Russian secret police rebuilds its organization; in the forests, guerrillas stir, and from the east comes the Russian counterattack. By the end of the story the Russians are back in Kharkov, exterminating their countrymen who wavered during the Nazi occupation...