It was a fashionable soiree in an elegant apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue. Among the guests was Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, who joined the Communist Party in 1943, won the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953 but quit the Communist Party in noisy but regretful disgust after Hungary. At the party, says Fast in a 30,000-word article prepared for publication next month in a new magazine called Prospectus,* the fascinating folk around him included:
A millionaire woman, the hostess, who will not now speak to Fast because "she considers me a renegade."
A wealthy owner of a chain of restaurants, once...
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