Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passport Problem. As a professional newsman. Parrish was fired from three jobs, "and never was happy until I became my own boss." The New York Herald 'Tribune's City Editor Stanley
...shirt, an Italian tie, and a topcoat I bought in Hong Kong. That can only happen to you in the air age. I've got only one problem-a small one. I'm the only man in the U.S. who has to ask his wife for a passport." Mrs. Parrish, known professionally as Frances Knight, chief of the passport division at the State Department, has not yet pulled her official strings to keep her husband at home...
...honeymooning with his buxom wife, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Last week Miller and Marilyn got married all over again, this time by a rabbi in a double-ring religious ceremony. At week's end Miller, having filed "further evidence of antiCommunism" with the State Department, got the passport for which he applied last May. State cautiously made it valid for only six months instead of the usual two-year period, but it freed Miller to wing to England this week with Mrs. Miller, who will forthwith step into the embrace of Sir Laurence Olivier in a new movie...
...better. We are married, and now the world can go back to what it was doing." At week's end, Playwright Miller had six more days in which to name his onetime Red associates for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee or risk not getting a passport for an English honeymoon with Marilyn. Optimistically, he had already leased a sumptuous love nest in London's suburbs...
Facing the House Un-American Activities Committee, Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller leaped hurdle after hurdle in a race to get a passport. No, he had never been under Communist Party discipline. Yes, he had indeed lent his name and support to many a Red-front group in the 1940s. No, he was no longer in "the mood" to support "a cause dominated by Communists." At only one hurdle did Pulitzerman Miller balk: providing the names of his former Red associates. "I will tell you anything about myself," said he frankly, "but I cannot take responsibility for another...