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...Methodist) all had summer assemblies at which youth leaders and ministers could meet. Deciding that his own denomination should have one as well, he spent two years scouring Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana for the proper setting. What he found was the 1,100-acre estate of Victor F. Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, converted after Lawson's death into a country club that went out of business in the Depression. The Baptists took it over for a trifling $300,000 (current evaluation: about $11,000,000 ), and converted it into one of the most luxurious church...
Wire to "Arthur Lawson." Wechsler charged that the closed hearing was "a flagrant attack on free newspapers." The books, he said, "were just a flimsy pretext for a full-fledged investigation of the Post" and members of its staff, and he demanded that the testimony be made public. But McCarthy refused to do so unless Wechsler "completed his testimony," i.e., made a list of the others who were active in the Young Communist League with him. Wechsler agreed to list them, because "I do not propose to let you distort or obscure the clear-cut issue of freedom...
...group's guiding spirit is Joseph McCarthy, the situation becomes equally perilous for the rights of privacy and fair hearing. As part of his Committee correspondence, the supposedly objective chairman, McCarthy, addressed a telegram to witness James Wechler, editor of the N. Y. Post, in care of Howard Lawson--Wechler's alleged pseudonym during his Communist Party days. Since the point under exploration, while distant from any possibility of prospective legislation or other constructive result, is Wechler's present political convictions, such a move pressages a biased committee...
COURTNEY B. LAWSON...
Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...