In Chicago, ex-Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee, more recently a novelist (The G-String Murders), was denounced last week as "an entertainer . . . reported to be a dear and close associate of the traitors to our country." Shocked by what he had read of Gypsy in Red Channels (a printed listing of 151 alleged Communist sympathizers and sponsors of front organizations), American Legionnaire Ed Clamage wired ABC's President Robert Kintner a question: What did Kintner intend to do about What Makes You Tick? (Sat. 9 p.m.), a new ABC show starring Miss Lee? Kintner, in reply, demanded proof that Gypsy was...
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