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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Welles and former Secretary of State Cordell Hull sprang to Duggan's defense, praised his patriotism. So did dozens of other U.S. citizens. The Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow (who is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education) spoke bitterly over the air after Duggan's death: "A dead man's character is being destroyed . . . Some of the headlines might as well have read, 'Spy Takes Life...
...acts like one, or refuses to say whether he is or isn't one. But when Cole's suit came before a federal jury in Los Angeles last month, the trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear that, so far as he was concerned, Communism was not an issue in the case...
With China falling, Burma in chaos and Indo-China locked in civil war, the West might have been expected to rejoice at the Dutch victory. Instead, W. R. Hodgson, representing Australia at the United Nations, cried: "[This] is worse than what Hitler did to The Netherlands." This immoderate expression went further than the official stands of the Western powers. Nevertheless, adverse criticism of the Dutch move was widespread...
Adds Classicist Walter R. Agard: "Their determination to get something out of Wisconsin has been positively painful . . . A much more solid, substantial crowd than after the first war. They went after their problems hard, and not too optimistically . . . Uncertainty is the nearest thing to a common banner. They'd like to be assured, and can't be. That's part of the disillusionment...
Lend an Ear (sketches, lyrics & music by Charles Gaynor; produced by William R. Katzell, Franklin Gilbert & William Eythe) blossoms out, after a long, wintry start, into a really gay intimate revue. Hailing from the West Coast, it often has a rough-diamond, loud-check sense of fun about it; and can be strenuously youthful as well as unpolished. But it has the greatest of assets for an intimate revue-a satiric eye and sassy tongue; and when it manages to be deft and daft at once, is thoroughly hilarious...