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...Barrows Dunham, Princeton graduate and chairman of Temple's Philosophy Department, was called before the Velde Committee on February 28, 1953, on suspicion of subversive activity. Dunham gave his name to the committee, but refused to reveal any other information-not even his occupation or educational background-under the terms of the Fifth Amendment...
...rapid subsequent action, Temple officials, suspended Dunham, called him before their loyalty committee, and finally dismissed him from the faculty, on a Pennsylvania law providing for a loyalty...
...Philadelphia branch of the ACLU immediately took up Dunham's defense, charging that Temple had violated due process of law and academic freedom in its action against him. An ACLU committee, consisting of A.H. Frey and Clark Byse, Law professors at the University of Pennsylvania and Henry Sawyer, 3d., Philadelphia attorney, submitted a report-not yet made public-to Temple officials...
Even so, Jukebox Favorite Eartha Kitt breaks through the film barrier at a disturbing velocity. This copper-colored daughter of a North Carolina cotton farmer, who quit the Katherine Dunham troupe to try for the big money, is neatly made, has a cobra-cold allure, sings well in both French and English, and dances with the unerring grace of a cat. More to the point, she makes the spectator feel like an iron filing when the magnet passes...
...Then it was Europe. All over Europe. But finally I quit Katherine Dunham. I had been there for a long time and I was getting stagnant. I wanted to go on my own. So I got a job singing at 'Carroll's' which is a cabaret. That's where Orson Welles saw me." He was strange. I met him at the bar upstairs. You know, there are two bars at 'Carroll's,' one upstairs and one downstairs, and he said very formally, 'Hello, my dear, I certainly enjoyed your performance this evening.' A record across the room was playing...