Word: paule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...
Other public figures were branded as Communist sympathizers. Among them were March's wife, Florence Eldridge, Boston University President Daniel L. Marsh, Radio Writer Norman Corwin and Cinema Stars Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Melvyn Douglas, husband of California's Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Outraged and vehement denials and sardonic evasions flew from coast to coast...
Hadn't Whittaker Chambers once said that his disclosure of the Communist conspiracy was like an act of war, like shooting an enemy? "You were comparing yourself to a soldier in combat?" asked Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, in a mocking tone...
...first trip back to Moscow since the war, Paul Robeson (see U.S. AFFAIRS) was a howling success. "You know how I feel to be back on Soviet soil," he told a cheering audience in Tchaikovsky Hall. He sang in English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...
...Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein II, co-author with the late Jerome Kern of Ol' Man River, was less enthusiastic about the liberties Robeson was taking with his classic. "I have no intention of changing [the lyrics] or permitting anyone else to change them," he said. "I further suggest that Paul write his own songs and leave mine alone...