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...took was a handful of telegrams and 20 telephone calls to kick Actress Jean Muir off the air as a "controversial personality" (TIME, Sept. 4). Networks, ad agencies and advertisers feared to have themselves identified with anyone accused, however justly or unjustly, of Communist sympathy. Last week, crowing over their victory against Actress Muir, a little group organized themselves as a special committee to keep the air waves pure...
...postponed the fall premiere of the TV version of The Aldrich Family, because it had received a lot of protests against one member of the cast, Actress Jean Muir. She was identified as a leftie in a directory published by Counterattack. Rejoined Actress Muir: "It's strange . . . especially since I consider Communism one of the most vicious things in the country today." The sponsor, General Foods, said it was making no judgment on the charges, but fired her as "a controversial personality...
Brush-haired, 33-year-old Episcopal Minister Robert M. Muir found himself last week just where it seemed he wanted to be-in boiling hot water. A long-time propagandist against the cold war, he had been fired as temporary pastor of two churches in Quincy, Mass. (Christ Church and St. Chrysostom's) for preaching straight down the Communist line...
Young Pastor Muir first got in trouble with his parishioners by signing the Communist-sponsored Stockholm Peace Appeal against the use of atomic weapons (TIME, July 24). Then he began sounding off from the pulpit against "national idolatry" and "my-country-right-or-wrong" patriotism. By last week both congregations had had enough, but the Rev. Robert Muir had no intention of changing his ways. "I preach the Gospel as I see it," he said cheerfully. "We need to mobilize for peace...
Later this summer, Reverend Robert, M. Muir, leader of the committee, conducted morning chapel in Memorial Church. He explained, "After all, it was Acheson, we were demonstrating against, not Harvard...