Volume 23, Number 10 · June 10, 1976

Witnesses

By Murray Kempton
Scoundrel Time
by Lillian Hellman

Little, Brown, 155 pp., $7.95

This is the third of the meditations of Miss Hellman's memory. Its single theme is her summons by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952, her decision to refuse to yield up the names of Communists she had known, the worse trouble with the Hollywood blacklist that followed that trouble, and the dignity and the shrewdness that carried her through both.



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