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...Lieut. Governor Joel Hayden saw the original statue while on a trip to Europe in the 1840s, had a bronze copy made and set up on the front lawn of his estate. According to one version of the story, his brother-in-law talked him into donating Sabrina to Amherst at a time when the college was beautifying its campus. Another version: when Hayden's God-fearing constituents objected to such a display of nudity in front of his mansion, he made a politician's decision that pleased both college and constituency...
Arizona's 73-year-old Carl Hayden, chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, spoke the Senate's mind: "We all fully support the idea . . . My criticism is that the [proposal] does not go far enough." Without objection, the Kem proposal was passed, about six hours after Britain itself had decided at last to do something about trade with Communist China (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Witness Hayden was unable to name many of his cellmates. Most of them he knew only by their first names and most of them were obscure writers and back-lot workers. The whole affair, said Hayden, now seemed "the stupidest, most ignorant thing I've ever done. Believe me, it's a load off my chest...
...Catalogue. With that, Actor Hayden went back to work on his latest picture, Skid Row, and the committeemen turned to some less cooperative witnesses. Actor Will Geer, one of the Jeeter Lesters of Tobacco Road, strode nonchalantly to the stand and amiably refused to answer any questions about Communist membership: "This is an emotional and hysterical question. I stand on the rights of the Fifth Amendment." Less pleasantly, three minor Hollywood writers also defied the committeemen...
...before the week was out, they heard one more witness who provided a whole catalogue of Hollywood Reds and ex-Reds. Like Actor Hayden, Writer Richard Collins had broken with the party and saw no reason to "go to jail for a year, for guys I don't even like any more." Among them: Novelist Budd Schulberg, who, he said, quit the party in a huff after the Reds tore into his What Makes Sammy Run?, Producer Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen, a score of other lesser Hollywood citizens...