The Press: Fired
Last week the Daily Worker, Communist Party organ, fired its cinema critic. Reason, according to Critic Howard Rushmore: he refused to follow the party line in his review of Gone With the Wind. Told to write a blistering attack on Margaret Mitchell's $3,850,000 picture, Critic Rushmore (whose grandfather was a Confederate soldier) merely said it was a bore.
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