COMMUNISTS: Randan at the Roxy

It was an unseasonably hot night. At the Wallace rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, William S. Gailmor, a onetime radio commentator who now rattles the tin cup for Henry, boomed at the 19,000 faithful: "A few blocks down the street they are going to show a picture which should be boycotted by every right-thinking person. So you know what to do . . ."

The faithful knew. When the revival meeting was over, about a thousand right-thinkers—Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents—clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles...

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