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...committee members were old hands at the game. Among them: Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, head of the newly formed Joint Committee Against Communism; Mrs. Hester McCullough, whose defense against a libel suit brought by Dancer Paul Draper and Harmonica Player Larry Adler ended in a hung jury (TIME, June 5); Managing Editor Theodore Kirkpatrick of the anti-Communist newsletter Counterattack, who served with the FBI for three years during World War II. Their bible was a $1 book, Red Channels, put out by Counterattack as a directory of suspected Reds and party-liners in the entertainment business...
...professor of government, instructor in the Regional Program on the Soviet Union, and teacher of a course on "Russia and Asia in World Politics;" Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and instructor in the Regional Program on China; and Benjamin Schwartz, instructor in History and member of the Russian Research Center, Far Eastern Division...
...hustled around the state in a chartered plane, reciting his achievements and promising more of the same. At every stop he also took a couple of lusty licks at Benjamin Travis Laney, the wealthy, 53-year-old former governor and Dixiecrat leader who had come out of political retirement to seek a third term and save Arkansas from Sid McMath and those Fair Deal radicals in Washington. Everywhere McMath went, he wore the same old blue suit, red tie and dilapidated Panama. He pumped the hands of the menfolk and introduced himself with a hearty "I'm Sid McMath...
...Benjamin P. Ferguson, son of Mrs. Laura Shoemaker, General Delivery, East Moline...
...Doren,† 64, journeyman of letters; of a heart ailment complicated by pneumonia; in Torrington, Conn. Onetime teacher (Columbia), headmaster (Manhattan's fashionable Brearley School) and editor, he wrote a dozen volumes of literary studies and criticism, three Revolutionary War histories, a Pulitzer Prizewinning (1939) biography of Benjamin Franklin, an autobiography (Three Worlds), a novel (The Ninth Wave), short stories and introductions to scores of old & new books...