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Between us we held the fort.

Finally I said to Turner, “Bear up another half hour. These people aren't going to stay here all night. I know that. I'm sure that they don't want to spend the money for a night's loeging. When it comes time to get the train or the bus, you'll see them disappear. But don't let them know you're anxious for it. Just sit and look as though you're going to stay here until ten o'clock at night, if necessary.”

Of course, just as I thought, around six o'clock they began to pick up their duds. They got out and ran. They had chartered a bus and they got the bus back to New York. The thing brokeup in complete disorder because they wanted to catch their bus, and we hadn't given them any satisfaction. We never saw that outfit again. The Daily Worker had the most terrible piece in it about this. Some of my friends in New York saw it and were furious. They thought it was an attack on me. But it didn't appear anywhere else, although there were little squibs in the press that a group of women had visited me. That obviously sprang from this lady who was the reporter for the Daily Worker. She planted it with a few others. However, she wrote over her own name a special article in the Daily Worker,





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