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...Goldmarks, former U.S. Senator Harry Cain (Rep., Wash.), who had served three years on the Subversive Activities Control Board, testified that the A.C.L.U. has never been a Communist front. And in a lighter moment, Actor Sterling Hayden, in full beard, testified that leaving the Communist Party is easy (he himself left in 1946 after six months) and the discipline only as tough as one makes it: "I was the only person I know to buy a yacht and join the party in the same week...
Should something happen to President Johnson, he would be succeeded by John McCormack, 71-year-old Speaker of the House. Following him in line for the Presidency is 86-year old president protempore of the Senate, Carl Hayden, and then the Cabinet beginning with the Secretary of State...
Nobody fooled himself that Hayden could act. Week after week he sat idly around the lot drawing $600 a month from Paramount Pictures and lifting weights in the studio gymnasium. Finaly he was given the second male lead, Behind Fred MacMurray and opposite Madeleine Carroll (whom he later married) in Virginia, and the big publicity boom...
...Tahiti. It only made Hayden more restless. He lived on and off boats, consulted a psychiatrist and watched his career slide. He describes how he was asked to play Tarzan by a zealous producer who had heard he had a flaming desire to save the world: "Maybe you don't realize that Tarzan represents the free man who stands alone against the forces of evil. Perhaps you could strip to the waist . . ." The troubled Hayden returned to the sea-loading his children aboard the schooner Wanderer and, in defiance of a court order, taking off with them for Tahiti...
What sets Hayden's story apart is his obvious, anguished integrity. He admits candidly that he was deathly afraid during much of the war. He wonders, with the insistence of a man probing a throbbing tooth, why he was always a loner, why his first two marriages failed, whether he had ever been anything but an actor: "Wasn't I a fo'c'sle dweller who was not a fo'c'sle dweller? A student who was not a student; a doryman unlike any other doryman? I am flawed inside and I know...