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>> A single person from Syracuse NY, who owned some grocery stores,
>> somehow managed to terrify the film/radio/TV business into firing
>> fingered communists.
> Oops, you've lost me now. Who's this, then?
Laurence Johnson was his name.
I just chanced upon this Molly Ivins story, which fortuitously answers my question. Since you didn't really know either, I thought I'd share.
An outfit of professional commie-hunters called AWARE, Inc., run by a
> guy named Vincent Hartnett ... to vet performers for commie
> sympathies ...
> Should a network or agency refuse to play along, Hartnett's friend
> Laurence Johnson, a grocery magnate from upstate New York,
> would pull the sponsor's products from his grocery shelves until they > caved in.
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cheers,Henry