Word: hammett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieut. Bobby E. Hammett, U.S. Air Force, back in the U.S., explains his germ-warfare confession to a U.S. interviewer...
Somehow Dashiel Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for its is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows, there is little romance...
...Hammett's ideological stupidities have now made him persona non grata with State Department libraries, but the old master of the "Black Mask" magazine wrote some of the finest non political fairy tales before he vanished into obscurity: The Maltese Falcon is among his best. MICHAEL MACCOBY
...quick look at U.S. library shelves all over the Continent. Removed were works by Reds, fellow travelers, controversial figures, "et cetera." Some of the blacklisted authors are Communists like Howard Fast, who writes propaganda novels; others are Communists whose works are not party propaganda, e.g., Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. Some were by notably non-Communist authors whose works or opinions had apparently annoyed somebody (in a similar shelf cleanup in Bombay, books by Bert Andrews, Clarence Streit and Walter White were removed...
...significant things to report." Asked for specifics, Cohn said portentously that there were not enough copies of the American Legion Magazine in U.S. information libraries. (Later they announced that the libraries contained such magazines as the Nation and the New Republic* works by such authors as Agnes Smedley, Dashiell Hammett, Anna Louise Strong.) Then the pair flew off to Berlin for a quick look at the Soviet cultural center in the Russian zone. There wasn't time to inspect Berlin's American library, but in a refugee camp Cohn asked a recent trans-Curtain arrival if he knew...