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Seven years ago, John Henry Faulk was making $36,000 a year as a radio and television monologuist and comic chatterer. Suddenly, his radio-TV income dropped to zero. He had been blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer in a pamphlet published by AWARE, Inc., a private group of lawyers, professors, businessmen and actors whose declared objective was "to combat the Communist conspiracy in entertainment communications...
Faulk brought suit for libel against AWARE, Inc., and against Vincent Hartnett, writer of the pamphlet, and Laurence Johnson, a Syracuse supermarket operator and AWARE, Inc. member, who energetically circulated Hartnett's pamphlet to TV sponsors. The case finally came to trial last April...
...McCarthy was riding high, and suspicions, half-truths and innuendoes could ruin a man. As evidence of Faulk's "Communist" sympathies, for instance, Hartnett had cited the fact that Faulk had appeared "at a function" with Composer Earl Robinson, an often blacklisted leftist. That was all the pamphlet had said...
...Philosopher Bertrand Russell is in no mood to waste words. His latest work, History of the World in Epitome, is an eleven-page, bite-sized pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press. It consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple...
...mistake," he told Osbert, "to have friends: they waste one's time." Not wasting his own. Sir George did voluminous research on "The Correct Use of Seaweed as an Article of Diet," worked on a walking stick designed to squirt vitriol at mad dogs, planned an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Twenty-seven Postures of Sir George R. Sitwell. Projects like these ran in the family. A Sitwell kinsman went to the trouble of having his coat of arms carefully inscribed on his food...