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...last week six ex-comrades had testified before the Rapp-Coudert legislative committee investigating subversive activities in New York City schools (TIME, March 17 et ante). They had named as Communists 64 teachers and clerks in three municipal colleges-Brooklyn, City and Hunter. The catalogue of Red activities was almost mock-sinister. The comrades were pictured as taking party pseudonyms, reading and writing Marxist literature, meeting secretly in each other's homes, issuing anonymous and scurrilous throwaways, sneaking stickers on subway windows, holding secret union '"fraction" caucuses, pleading with witnesses not to expose them. Although a witness accused...
That was only the beginning. The Rapp-Coudert legislative committee investigating subversive activities in New York City public schools, which last fall flushed a covey of Reds at Brooklyn College (TIME, Dec. 16), decided to resume its hearings, summoned as its first witness a red-pompadoured City College teacher named Morris U. Schappes. Day before the hearing Mr. Schappes, fearing that he would not get a fair break, summoned reporters to a hotel room. Flanked by Teachers Union officers, he announced that he had been a Communist for five years but resigned from the party a year ago to write...
...course of singing a patter song, Poor Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later Moss Hart wrote a Snooks skit for Sweet and Low, but Snooks was officially recognized when she was included in the Brice routine for the 1934 Follies. The late Dave Freedman and Phil Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction on the program, Miss Brice cooed, gurgled and whined her way to a berth...
...Snooks, Fanny goes through all kinds of strange contortions before a mike, mugging, squirming and jumping up & down. Unlike Colleague Morgan she never ad libs, gives Scriptwriter Rapp and Hanley Stafford, her "Daddy," plenty of credit for helping her put Snooks across, threw a party last week in honor of them and Snooks's seventh anniversary. Favorite situation cooked up for Snooks involved the purchase of an Easter bonnet. First she demands flowers for the hat, then fruit, eggs, vegetables. Remarks the clerk: "Shall I wrap it up?" Replies Snooks: "No, I'll eat it here...
...RAPP...