Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They leveled charges of "pro-Communism" at Collier's and at the author, Mrs. Dorothy Frank, a California housewife, who had defended UNESCO courses in Los Angeles public schools. Some at the same time demanded that Collier's (circ. 3,100,000) fire Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon, who was charged with "a long record of Red-front affiliations." The two complaints had no direct connection, since Moon had nothing to do with Collier's buying or running the article. Nevertheless, last week Collier's summarily fired Moon, and was mum on the reason. But Moon...
...Bucklin Moon, 42, is less known...
Collier's editor than as the author of four books about U.S. Negroes, which have won him considerable critical acclaim as well as a Julius Rosenwald fellowship and the $2,500 George Washington Carver award. Moon, who is often mistakenly thought to be a Negro because of his writing, for ten years was an editor at Doubleday & Co.; six months ago he joined Collier's staff...
...Refusal. Last week Collier's Editor Roger Dakin called in Moon's boss, Fiction Editor MacLennan Farrell, told him of the letters of protest against Moon. He also showed him citations on Moon from the report of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which said that: 1) Moon had been a sponsor of the 1949 Communist-front Waldorf culture conference and was named in the Daily Worker as a member of a group organized by the fellow-traveling National Council of the Arts, Sciences & Professions; and 2) Moon's novel Without Magnolias had been mentioned...
...curious tribal gatherings-one at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the other at Balboa, Calif.-as thousands of students, freed from their books by Easter vacations, swarmed seal-like to the two towns' beaches to swim, fight, drink, woo, bask in the sun and howl at the southern moon...