Word: counterattacks
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...terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place, denied that they had any intentions of setting themselves up as a final authority in such matters. At week's end representatives from the broadcasters and from the actors' union got together...
...troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...
...them: Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, head of the newly formed Joint Committee Against Communism; Mrs. Hester McCullough, whose defense against a libel suit brought by Dancer Paul Draper and Harmonica Player Larry Adler ended in a hung jury (TIME, June 5); Managing Editor Theodore Kirkpatrick of the anti-Communist newsletter Counterattack, who served with the FBI for three years during World War II. Their bible was a $1 book, Red Channels, put out by Counterattack as a directory of suspected Reds and party-liners in the entertainment business...
Members were obviously prepared to put the heat on advertisers who hired any of the 151 actors, writers and directors listed in Counterattack* or Red Channels -and presumably, anyone else who attracted the committee's suspicions. "We have intended no blacklist," explained Committeeman Kirkpatrick blandly, "but we have no objection to people taking action on the facts we have compiled...
...Including such chatty radio gossips as Mary Margaret McBride and Martha Dean, singled out by Counterattack because, among other things, they have at one time or another advertised Polish hams...