Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Less than a week after a committee had set up shop in Manhattan to purge the nation's airwaves of suspected Communists and their fellow travelers, committee members began explaining that it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place...
...took was a handful of telegrams and 20 telephone calls to kick Actress Jean Muir off the air as a "controversial personality" (TIME, Sept. 4). Networks, ad agencies and advertisers feared to have themselves identified with anyone accused, however justly or unjustly, of Communist sympathy. Last week, crowing over their victory against Actress Muir, a little group organized themselves as a special committee to keep the air waves pure...
...postponed the fall premiere of the TV version of The Aldrich Family, because it had received a lot of protests against one member of the cast, Actress Jean Muir. She was identified as a leftie in a directory published by Counterattack. Rejoined Actress Muir: "It's strange . . . especially since I consider Communism one of the most vicious things in the country today." The sponsor, General Foods, said it was making no judgment on the charges, but fired her as "a controversial personality...
...students gathered in Agassiz Theater Thursday night where they were greeted by Dean Korby-Miller and Dean Small and addressed by Jean O'Brien, '51, chairman of the freshmen orientation program...
...world's third biggest liner had been delayed six hours by a last-minute protest strike of the ship's officers for a pay raise. Aboard the 49,850-ton, 936-ft. Liberté were Actress Irene Dunne, TV Star Jack Carter, French Line's President Jean Marie and 1,317 other passengers, few of whom could see any signs that the Liberte had once been the North German Lloyd's proud Europa...