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John L. Lewis is the most even-tempered man in Big Labor-he is always in, emerging from or entering a mood of righteous fury. But even John L. had a hard time last week thinking up some new way of showing his contempt for the big bosses of the American Federation of Labor. Since he had called them "fat and stately asses" and "debased cravens," and they had reduced him to size at the A.F.L. convention two months ago (TIME, Oct. 27), Lewis had stewed angrily, working himself up to the proper pitch for the next explosion...
...most objective, timely, and well considered article in the magazine is a discussion of academic freedom by Lyman Bradley, one-time head of the German department at NYU until his work on the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee resulted in a contempt citation by the Un-American Activities Committee...
...Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, chairmaned by Dr. Edward K. Barsky, now out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for contempt of Congress...
...show put on by the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee. Fifty of the industry's top executives, representing virtually every U.S. film producer, got together in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. After two days of conferences, they fired the ten Hollywood writers and producers cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify whether or not they are Communists...
Lavery did not approve of the decision of the movie industry, a private group, to act as a judiciary, firing the ten cited for contempt...