Outside a small room in the County Court House in downtown Manhattan, a mob of 500 clamored to get in. A fiery, black-haired teacher-unionist, Dr. Bella V. Dodd, rushed about shrieking: "The hearing is packed!" Inside the room, jam-packed with newsmen and eager spectators, the curtain rose last week on a legislative investigation of subversive activities in New York City's public schools.
For four years the Hearst New York Journal & American had screamed that the city's schools and colleges were honeycombed with Reds. Bertrand Russell's appointment last spring to teach at City College...
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