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...Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, Cisco Houston and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, from the cottonfields of California to the West Virginian mining towns. "...I am proud of the fact that my songs seem to cut across and find perhaps a unifying thing, basic humanity..." Seeger said in response to the inquisition of HUAC prosecutor Frank S. Tavenner. "I know many beautiful songs from your home county. Carbon, and Monroe, and I hitchhiked through there and stayed in the homes of miners...
...GLOSSY world of monthly, national circulation magazines--the ones that cost at least a dollar--there are two types; magazines for people, and magazines for women. Magazines for people have articles in them on the disbandment of HUAC, or the latest dealings of OPEC. Magazines for women have articles on breast cancer, child care, or "when to blow the whistle on the boss." In fact, one magazine this month has everyone of those articles. It even has the requisite beaming cherub on the cover, Yet there's a twist; this grinning infant is perched on an IBM Selectric typewriter...
...proceedings grew out of the peculiar frenzy that seized America during the early cold war years, and an attempt by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to suggest that many actors and writers were dangerous, dedicated agents of a Communist conspiracy to undermine the American way of life...
...associate editor of TIME, wastes little space on the Neanderthal committee itself, and its questionable methods. (At one point, it soberly listened as Walt Disney cited the League of Women Voters as one of many "Commie-front organizations.") His humane concern is with the victims -those who cooperated with HUAC and those...
Died. Martin Dies, 71, progenitor of the old House Un-American Activities Committee and chairman during its first six stormy years; of an apparent heart attack; in Lufkin, Texas. A burly Texan first elected to Congress in 1930, Dies won approval for the creation of HUAC in 1938 to "investigate subversion and un-American propaganda." In tempestuous, headline-making public hearings, Dies attacked all manner of supposed subversives, including Communists, fascists, atheists, advocates of nudism, and New Dealers, whom he characterized as "an army of radical associates and crackpots." Dies' inquisitorial style set a pattern that the committee followed...