The ex-Communist -turned -book -peddler sat uneasily before a Washington microphone. Reason for Earl Browder's discomfort: a battery of four newsmen, a little less than friendly, a little more than anxious to interview him on Mutual's Meet the Press program.
Ever since blonde, bouncy Martha Rountree sold the program to Mutual last October, it has been a radio headliner. On Meet the Press John L. Lewis threatened his chronic coal scuttle, and Walter Reuther described the General Motors strike the week his U.A.W. hit the street. Because the show has so often made good copy, wire service reporters now cover the broadcasts...
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