Word: judson
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Congress, which has investigated Communists on the stage, screen and radio, last .week got around to the U.S. press. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee appeared Charles W. Judson, 42. He freely admitted that, under the party alias of "Peter Steele," he had been a member of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1941 at the same time he was city editor of the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 209,000). Judson, now senior associate editor of California's Fortnight magazine and a militant antiCommunist, named 16 others as members of the party's Newspaper Unit...
Despite his dual role as working Communist and city editor, Judson said the party had never tried to influence him in his newspaper duties. After a year in the Communist Party's newspaper unit, he found that its orders on Guild matters conflicted with his responsibilities on the city desk, where he had the right to hire & fire, consequently transferred to a non-news unit of the C.P. But he stuck with the Party three more years, until its role "as a total captive of Russian foreign policy was quite apparent...
...real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson. His father, Levi Judson, fifth generation of an old Connecticut family, wrote solemn essays on the nature of man, and tried his best to ground his son in the elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville...
...brought Buntline an income of $20.000 a year, but much of it was squandered on sprees or paid out as hush money to one of his earlier wives. By 1880, he had settled down (with wife No. 6) on his Stamford estate, where he was known as Colonel E.Z.C. Judson, former "Chief of Scouts in the Rebellion of 1861-5," and a respectable literary gentleman. "I might have paved for myself a far different career in letters," the colonel liked to say, 'but my early lot was cast among rough men on the border . . ." He died...
...Crimson seemed to revive. Right inside Johny Beer put a little life into the disorganized attack, while Captain Craven played his usual good game in the goal. The Indians passing was more accurate, however, and at 9:00 of the third period Jalme Pradilla converted a cross from Art Judson on the portliest play of the game...