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...Hulda McGarvey Flynn, 42, for eight years (1933-41) a teacher of psychology at Mt. Holyoke and Smith, was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee after an FBI counterspy testified that she had once taught at the Communist-run Samuel Adams School in Boston. When Mrs. Flynn refused to say whether or not she had ever been a Communist, the committee asked her about her husband, now a psychologist at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda. Said Mrs. Flynn: "I decline to answer...
Because of this smooth integration the music does not have the standout qualities of previous productions. This is certainly a compliment to composer Harry Flynn who has supplied the cast with a varied and original score. Of the eight songs, I felt that Economy and Meet Me at the Coop were freshest, but I'm certain that a more fully orchestrated version of the ballad So Long Love would put that number far above the others. Although this is the first public presentation of any of Mr. Flynn's work, it is polished and neat, and shows considerable promise...
...Enrol Flynn...
...grandstanding from the bench. He asked: "If something like spending the rest of your life in Russia could be worked out as a substitute for prison, would that interest you at all?" The Communists fervently refused-not without some grandstanding of their own. Cried Big Red Hen Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: the suggestion was "comparable to asking a Christian if he wanted to go to heaven right away . . . We feel we would be traitors to the American people if we turned our backs on them . . ." The judge accommodated all with sentences ranging from a year and a day to three years...
...Flynn: "Because I think the Irish are proof against Communism and I want to give him a nice soft...