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Carol's Diary. Juror No. 2 was Russell Janney, 64, Broadway producer, promoter and author of the bestselling The Miracle of the Bells. One of the steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...
Carol kept a diary. Hers was different from most-it consisted of her conversations with Janney concerning the trial. The Communists' lawyers produced Carol's diary last week when they tried to upset the Government's tedious, costly effort to jail the top U.S. Communists...
Like all jurors, Janney had been instructed not to discuss the trial with anyone. But by shrewd prodding, Carol had apparently gotten Janney to do some talking. With carefully culled excerpts from her conversations with him, as verified only by Carol, the defense tried to prove that Janney was emphatically prejudiced ("Those goddam Communists-If anyone ever mentions Marxism-Leninism to me, I'll knock his block off"). They contended he was determined to find the defendants guilty ("Whatever the verdict is, it will be appealed and appealed...
...which had lost almost all of its comedy line-up to raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
...jury finally chosen showed the quality of their long-winded complaint. Among the 16 were three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well-to-do juror in the lot was Broadway producer and author Russell Janney, 63, who wrote the bestselling Miracle of the Bells, and got $125,000 from Hollywood...