Word: dorner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regarding Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's naive belief [TIME, Sept. 9] that Communists have no more to do with ICCASP's course than fleas do with a dog's, let them remember that fleas have a decided influence on a dog's destiny...
What intelligent or legitimate connection can there be between Lena Horne's songs or Gypsy Rose Lee's navel and the election campaigns of responsible officials and progressive legislators? Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's substitution of theatrical ballyhoo for concrete, vital political issues is a stupid and sordid insult to the voters of this nation. The work of other such ICCASPeople as Daily Worker Writer Howard Fast readily attests to Communist Front activity and possible Moscow affiliations...
ICCASP had proved its ability to pull crowds into huge New York and Los Angeles rallies, to lure money-heavy political angels into glittering banquet rooms. A bright, diminutive 35-year-old ex-newspaperwoman named Hannah Dorner, who affectionately calls ICCASP members "glamor pusses," handled most of its promotion stunts with a hardheaded competency in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, overlooking Broadway. Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes...