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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other names which pop up regularly all along the U.S. Communist line: ex-Yank Correspondent Walter Bernstein, Movie Scripter Alvah Bessie (now awaiting trial for contempt of Congress), New Yorker Profiler Richard O. Boyer, ex-Howard University Professor Doxey Wilkerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: We Grip Your Hand | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Peter share an apartment in New York after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Unhappy Men | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah Bessie: "General Eisenhower has refused to reveal his political party affiliation and what's good enough for General Eisenhower is good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fade-Out | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...aimed one blast straight at Scripter Lawson, called him "an out & out Communist." The Screen Writers' Guild, he said, is "under complete Communist domination," and so is the Story Analysts' Guild. For that matter, 44 of 100 plays produced on Broadway since 1936 "have contained material to further the Communist line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hollywood on the Hill | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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