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Your article talks of the "secrecy" which shrouded the meeting when questions were asked regarding the sources of the conference. Tom Roberts of the National Lawyer's Guild which is incidentally not on the 'subversive" list replied that as far as he knew the conference was not being sponsored by one or more organizations but was rather the idea of a number of students from different colleges in New York...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Sea Wolf, with Boris Karloff, Burgess Meredith, Margaret Phillips...
...year ago Hughes fired a writer named Paul Jarrico, suspected of being a Communist, junked his work on The Las Vegas Story and got a new scenario. Jarrico demanded part screen credit or $5,000, and the Screen Writers' Guild backed him. But Hughes filed suit against Jarrico, claiming that he had violated the morals clause of his contract by refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Red. Jarrico countered with a $350,000 damage suit. Hughes's "personal acts and conduct," he said, "are in constant violation of generally accepted public 'conventions...
...issued an icy reply: "Mr. Jarrico, these are times of national emergency ... I do not think the public should be forced to guess or conjecture as to whether a man is a Communist. I think the public is entitled to know ..." When Jarrico remained adamant, Hughes publicly dared the guild to call a strike at RKO. The guild turned down the dare...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Florence Nightingale, with Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne...