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taken with each other at sight. He's a great man--John Daly. We started kidding each other the minute we met. We hit it off perfectly. I've always loved Arlene. I told you that I'd met her. She's one of the most charming girls in the world. As for Dorothy--personally she was very nice. All of the cattiness that came out in the column did not show when you met her personally. I hit it off with her too. Block I thought was a clod. He wasn't in the same class as the others.

I went home. I said to Phyllis, “Gee, this was fun. It was an interesting experience.” Then, three weeks later, Louis Untermeyer got into a terrible jam. He was a great signer. He was like Gen. von Hindenburg. He would sign any piece of paper that was stuck in front of him, and he signed a few things too many--a few Communist proclamations. Louis Untermeyer is no more a Communist than J. Edgar Hoover, but he had joined several suspect societies--that made him rather conspicuous. A few right wing organizations began hounding people like Louis Untermeyer. It was an unfortunate time in television, when the blacklist was coming into effect and a lot of people in television lost their jobs outrageously because of a rabid grocer up in Syracuse who owned a big chain, and threatened to boycott sponsors who hired people of whom he disapproved. The Catholic War Veterans were also raising hell about Louis Untermeyer.

Goodson-Toddman held out against this as long as they could, but finally the veterans started picketing the