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Woodland, Frankie Waldron fell in love. At the end of the session when Willie arrived to reclaim his wife, Frankie and Reggie had to tell him that he had arrived too late. Willie disconsolately went back to Los Angeles to immerse himself in party work and later got a divorce. Frankie and the new Mrs. Reggie Waldron returned from Woodland to set up Communist housekeeping in Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Love in Woodland. In South Pasadena, Calif., where he had taken his stepmother and Nora, Frankie Waldron fingered the mementos and closed that preliminary chapter in the career of a revolutionary. He was absorbed in Communist reading matter, furiously wrote Communist tracts. He worked only when his stepmother and Nora were down to the last dime. Salesmen's jobs were "bourgeois," he orated. His stepmother pleaded with him to make something of himself. He told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...night Reggie called for Mrs. Amelia Waldron in a curtained car and drove her to a hideaway on the city's outskirts. There was Frankie. He told his stepmother excitedly: "I'm going to Russia. You'll hear from me." That was the last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Young Man in Tweeds. For Frankie Waldron, those months between postcards were an odyssey. He had fled the U.S. on a passport made out to "Paul Walsh." Reggie had followed him as "Mrs. Walsh," presumably taking Timothy with her. Frankie went to Europe, probably stopped in at Moscow, went to South Africa, on to China, then back to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...sucked in now; there was no turning back. In Shanghai, living at the Foncin Apartments, 643 Route Frelupt, he operated as a Red organizer. He used many aliases. Somewhere along the line he decided that he would become "Eugene Dennis." So far as he was concerned, Francis X. Waldron Jr. was dead and buried. Not a trace of him remained, not even a Seattle streetcar token...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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