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With all the talk of the "black silence of fear" descending upon the country, and with suppression of unorthodoxy becoming the order of the day, the final outcome of the Big Norwalk Red-hunt is a triumph of good sense. When the press announced that the Norwalk branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was reporting people under suspicion of "subversive" action to the FBI, it seemed for a while that telling tattle on one's neighbor would become the new national rage--despite J. Edgar Hoover's warning that the worst way to fight domestic Communism is for uninformed...
...sooner was the VFW action publicized than it was viciously attacked, as so blatant a denial of individual freedom should be. First the ADA denounced it, in advertisements in local newspapers. Soon, officials and groups who would not ordinarily back any ADA policy were denouncing the Norwalk VFW. Now the plan has been dropped entirely...
...Minute Women, founded in 1949 in Norwalk, Conn., and spearheaded by a Belgian-born sculptress, Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson (sister of Belgium's Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys), had one of its biggest and most active chapters in Houston. The Minute Women insisted that they did not act as a group, rather as "individuals." When they first saw Newsman O'Leary, they tape-recorded the interview, and one ex-member even demanded that an FBI man be present for another interview. O'Leary was asked: "We're 100% pro-American. Are you?" Much of their work was done...
Married. Isabel Bigley, 25, Broadway musicomedy star (Me and Juliet, Guys and Dolls); and Lawrence Barnett, 39, a vice president of Music Corp. of America, top U.S. musical talent agency; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norwalk, Conn...
...editors of a thriving monthly magazine got ready for a weekend of work without a mutter of complaint. One editor was off to Newport, R.I. to sail his 58-ft. yawl Caribbee in the 466-mile, 30-boat race to Annapolis, Md. The editor of the magazine headed for Norwalk, Conn., where he climbed aboard a launch and ran the weekly sailboat race of the Norwalk Yacht Club. Two of the magazine's ad staff were out on Long Island Sound racing their 19-ft. Lightning-class sloops. For all of them, the weekend on the water...