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...neighboring city unpleasant notoriety, or when a "Red Hunt" after the First World War put hundreds in chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because of the present hysteria it has been possible to give the jailing of the Communists a legal hale is irrelevant. An attack on liberty of expression can come through executive (loyalty board), legislative (Sullivan Bill) or judicial (trial of Communists) means. Whatever form it takes it must be stopped. Richard W. Reichard...
...intervenes, and he volunteers to entertain the armed forces. There are scenes of Jolson singing "Four Leaf Clover" in an Aleutian quonset hut and "Chinatown" under Tunisian palms; at length, he collapses with fever, and is flown home, where he falls in love with his nurse, (Barbara Hale...
After rallying and setting off on an entertainment tour of veterans hospitals--an opportunity to dub in "Sonny Boy" and "Toot-Toot-Tootsie" (among others) on the sound track--Jolson collapses again. Miss Hale, of course, appears at his bedside. Her lines are poor--she too has to spend her time telling Jolson to relax--but her performance is enough to make her a leading candidate for the worst actress of the year. Unfortunately she stays around to marry Jolson and manage his life...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...
Later, some of the accusers confessed that they had sinned. Wrote the Rev. John Hale, who had been a witness against one of the witches: "We walked in clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humble for error . . . which cannot be retrieved." And indeed it could not be retrieved, for before the nine months' hysteria spent itself 20 innocent men & women had been executed in Salem...