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Congratulations to Kirkpatrick, Schultz, el al., for their courageous attack on Miss Jean Muir. They are setting a noble example for all patriotic Americans, which I, for one, am going to follow...
...friends, who also hate Republicans, and I are oiling up our mimeograph. If 20 telegrams can get rid of Jean Muir, we can promise that six months from now our televisions will be darkened only by Democrats, and Democrats of the right race, color and religion. We hate lots of people besides Republicans. Some actors may deny our charges, but that won't help them. We don't have to prove anything. All we have to do is write letters and telegrams and make telephone calls to sponsors...
Later this summer, Reverend Robert, M. Muir, leader of the committee, conducted morning chapel in Memorial Church. He explained, "After all, it was Acheson, we were demonstrating against, not Harvard...
...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...
...explain just what it would take to get right with the committee again. He had once been forced to apologize publicly after Actor Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge had convincingly denied his charges that they were Communists. But he was not prepared to accept Actress Muir's denials so easily. "Times have changed since then," he said...