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...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...
...graduated from Wellesley in 1930, went on to take a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She taught at Manhattan's progressive Dalton Schools, later became the first woman teacher in the history department of New York's City College. She later became an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and last year won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography, Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow. Last week, at 39, pretty, petite Historian Clapp won Wellesley's top honor: out of 150 candidates, she was chosen the college's eighth president...
...Dalton Trumbo and Adrian Scott, screen-writers who were then under indictment for contempt of Congress, were barred from an April 20, 1948 meeting. They were scheduled to talk on civil liberties. A meeting on civil rights, set for January 17, 1949, with Communist Party official Emanuel Blum as speaker, was also not allowed...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...
Last week, the committee of five met in M. Herriot's salon to see whether they could get to a compromise. The French were represented by tough little ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and by vague old Leon Blum. Horse-faced Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed the British delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing...