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Confusion. Here, as recorded by Reporter Salisbury, the tour produced the neatest bit of confusion since Lou Costello asked Bud Abbott, "Who's on first?" The Met's American Gallery Curator Robert B. Hale explained to Molotov's interpreter, Oleg Troyanovsky, that The Flying Box was the work of 27-year-old John Hultberg (TIME, May 2), an "expressionist-abstractionist." The painter, Hale added, was once a guard at the Metropolitan. Troyanovsky translated to Molotov: "He was formerly of the avant-garde...
...cannot believe that Miss Hale, in her twelve years of activity in the Communist Party," the majority of the Committee asserted, "did not learn the doctrine (of violent overthrow of existing governments) or hear it advocated, or know of the distribution of literature advocating it. . . We conclude that she did not tell the truth on April 23, that she did so in order to defend the Communist Party...
Before the Commission in a return hearing early this year, Miss Hale did not use the privileges against self-in-crimination of either the Fifth Amendment or of the Twelfth Article of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, but she did invoke the First Amendment and refused the name of people associated with her in Communist activity...
Since her firing she has held a succession of jobs, the first of which was working for a private charity. But although "I was told I was doing well at this job, I was suddenly fired." Miss Hale attributes both her dismissal by the Wayland schools and the loss of her charity job to malicious visits by "agents" of the Commission." "Is this Commission using permanent unemployment as a club to force people to become informers?" she asked last January...
...Miss Hale and her lawyer Oliver S. Allen still contemplate further legal action to restore her to her teaching post, but their action is contingent upon the results of other pending cases...