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...infuses the twisted, misanthropic Skelly with some of the most convincing passion in the play. Cora (Jennifer Divine), likewise denounced by the villagers, also achieves a down-to-earth honesty with the audience, though without the monologues. And had the role not been somewhat overplayed, the part of Mary Winrod (Miriam Schmir) as a senile old witch might have also stirred some passion...
...rumors-grew. Last March, The Realist, a shabby Greenwich Village periodical, published the fact of the Blauvelt genealogical entry as an "expose." So, a bit later, did Birmingham's antiSemitic, anti-Negro circular, The Thunderbolt ("The White Man's Viewpoint"). So, in June, did The Winrod Letter, a oamphlet put out by the Rev. Gordon Winrod of Little Rock. Racist organizations in the South and crackpot groups everywhere photostated these pieces and sent them out as junk mail by the scores of thousands; it is estimated that at least 100,000 were received by mailbox holders in Massachusetts...
...called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L.K. Smith et al. It was left to Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to make the political riposte. Said he. in reply to a telegram from Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler: "I think you realize, Paul, that neither you nor I can control the utterances or writings...
Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize...
...Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kans. reports by pamphlet that "the international Jewish banking fraternity" is ready "to sovietize" the U.S. Writes Winrod (whose Nazi-line pamphleteering got him indicted for sedition in 1945) : "Woodrow Wilson failed them. Franklin Roosevelt served them to the end of his days. Harry Truman remains their pawn. Dwight Eisenhower is their choice in this, the catastrophic year...