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...more or less always wanted to go into show business. I was in high school plays. Someone dared me to see Katherine Dunham for an audition, so I did it for fun on the dare, but it turned out not to be so funny because I got a complete scholarship and I had never done much of any dancing before...
...Finally I joined the Katherine Dunham regular company and we went on tour. There was Carib Song, which took place in Haiti or someplace like that, and other shows, and we toured all of Mexico, too. Then we went to Hollywood where I had a little bit of a part in Casbah, that awful thing with Tony Martin. I was the dancer who said, "Come on, Pepe," She snapped her fingers and wiggled in her chair...
Another witness, Barrows (Man Against Myth) Dunham, head of Temple University's philosophy department, grudgingly gave his name and address, his birthday and birthplace. To answer any other question, even about his education, he said, might tend to incriminate him. The committee promptly recommended that Dunham be cited for contempt...
...Benjamin F. Wright announced that Robert Davis' past was unimportant. He is anti-Communist now, said Wright, and a "valuable and highly respected member of the Smith College faculty." Temple's President Robert L. Johnson, new head of the Voice of America (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), suspended Philosopher Dunham because "you have deliberately created a doubt as to your loyalty status." And at Harvard, Provost Paul H. Buck said that Professor Furry's antics would "be given full and deliberate consideration by ... university authorities...
Johnson's letter said the basis for the suspension was a Pennsylvania law called the state's loyalty oath. Under section 13, Johnson wrote Dunham, "Temple University is required to unequivocally set forth that the institution has no reason to believe any subversive persons are in its employ.' By your refusal to answer questions put to you by the congressional committee on the ground that to do so might be self-incriminating, you have deliberately created a doubt as to your loyalty status...