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...case before Judge Smith was a $200,000 damage suit brought by Larry Adler, the harmonica player, and Paul Draper, the dancer, against Mrs. John T. McCullough, Greenwich, Conn, housewife (TIME, Dec. 5), who had publicly objected to their performing at a local concert...
...going into the hands of those unsympathetic to our democracy." Columnist Cassini phoned her and she read him the letter. He printed it. When the editor of the Greenwich Time saw Cassini's column, he also printed the letter. At the invitation of the Greenwich Kiwanis Club, Hester McCullough marched into a luncheon meeting and once again aired her views...
...overthrowing the government by force. "No," they said. Did they believe in making changes by a majority vote? "Yes," they said. That was enough for the Association. The concert went on, Draper danced, Adler played the mouth organ. And they filed a $200,000 libel suit against Hester McCullough...
That was only the beginning of it. Under an old and odd Connecticut law, all the liquid and real assets jointly owned by Mrs. McCullough and her husband, a picture editor of TIME, were forthwith frozen: a $2,000 bank account, a piece of property worth about $7,500, their $65,000 house (mortgaged...
Overwhelmed by these workings of the law, unable to touch her capital, Mrs. McCullough wondered how she was going to defend herself. Columnist Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...