THE AMERICAN SEE PAGE 14 . FIFTH COLUMN LEGION IN RUSSIA MAGAZINE By EUGENE LYONS JULY 1953 . If you like beer liu'll Love Schlitz No harsh bitterness . Just the kiss of the hops This dry and mellow beer . this beer of matchless flavor ... is the world's largest seller. Year alter year more bottles and cans of Schlitz are bought — millions more— than of any other beer. This popularity is the result of the most conclusive taste test in beer history. ON TV EVERY WEEK—The popular "SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE OF STARS." See your newspaper for time and station. Schlitz is available in quart bottles, 12- ounce bottles and cans, and the 7-ounce bottle. Also in 24-Pak and bandy 6-Pak cartons ol cans and "one-way" bottles tbat require no deposit. firstin Sale < The Beer that Made /Milwaukee Famous © 19!>3— Jo«. Schliu Bri-» in? Company, Milwaukee, Wig. 1909 STODDARD-DAYTON was typical of its TODAY AS YESTERDAY day and proved quite popular. Priced at $2,500 it offered a four-cylinder, 36-horsepower engine. It was manufactured in Day (on, Ohio! 1916 OWEN was called "The Car of a Thousand Speeds." Its elec- tromagnetic transmission antici- pated today's automatic shifts. 1953 STUDEBAKER Starliner reflects European style in its low silhouette—less than five feet high. Power steering Early-day automobile manufacturers and a choice of transmissions are offered. often de- vised fantastic stunts to publicize their cars. ETHYL" One promoter actually hung a car and driver from a huge balloon and sent ANTIKNOCK them sailing over COMPOUND Indianapolis, Indiana. Probably he was trying to prove that his car had "high" performance. However, today's car owners have their feet on the ground when it comes to their cars' power and performance. And millions of them have found the way to get the best out of a modern high compression 1933 LEVER ETHYL engine is by using claimed "50% saving in fuel ... 100 miles "Ethyl" gasoline. per hour" CORPORATION because of its trick engine. A lever linkage Next time you need gasoline, look for the between pistons and connecting rods was designed New York 17, New York "Ethyl"emblem. You'll enjoy the to increase torque powerful dif- at low engine speeds. Ethyl Antiknock Ltd., in Canada ference between gasoline and "Ethyl" gasoline! NEWS ABOUT YOUR HAIR THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE Summer dryness LEGION prevented by new grooming discovery VOL. 55 No. 1 Three of your hair's ii:<;i<»\ CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1953 worst enemies are summer sun, wind and water. They dry your THE MAN WITH A .38 (fiction) 11 C. scalp . make hair BY WALTER BROWN dull, hard to keep There are times when bullets aren't important. down. 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So many letters are being received it is not possible to promise answers. Keep your letters short. Address: Sound Off, COMBED The American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave., New York 06, N. Y. ENCOMPASSED EVERYTHING and schools throughout the Nation, (b) the Daily Worker, which used to list Sir: Warmest congratulations on The Lester Granger quite favorably, lias also Movies and The American Legion (May attacked such characters as Anna Louise issue.) 1 have often pondered the seeming- Strong and Earl Browder, and (c) Mr. ly impossible task of presenting the story Granger in his day has publicly sponsored of all that has happened (during the red not just a few but a great many of the infiltration of the movies.) I more than most dangerous communist fronts. Mr. once . concluded that it was a rather Granger now makes much ado about his hopeless task. You have encompassed rather recent anti-communism; but it is the everything within the confines of a few welfare-staters of his persuasion among pages . with extraordinary clarity not w hom the commies have always recruited unmixed with . human understanding. their victims and dupes. Like an ideologi- . Nothing I have ever told our people cal dervish Mr. Granger manages to be at Columbia presents the problem as you anti-anti-communist even today, as his have written it. gratuitous attack on Joe McCarthy of May Nate li. Spingold 5, 1953 proves. You can have Lester Gran- Vice President, ger. I'll take Joe McCarthy. Columbia Pictures Corp. Felix Wittmer New York City Upper Montclair, N. J. r JSt Sir: Mr. Lester Granger states that Felix Wittmer is not always able to recognize "other anti-communists'' because of his characterization of "Urban League." Mr. (hanger says it is an anti-communist or- ganization. Is this the same Lester Granger of New York who was on the executive STEVE NEEDS MONEY board of "Associated Film Audiences" cited Sir: There must be some reds working here as a communist front in "Guide to Subver- since I recently received this letter over sive Organizations and Publications"? Is Steve Nelson's signature. I suppose you tli is the same person who was on the edi- know about this man since his name ap- torial board of the communist periodical, peared in the magazine where he was listed Social Work Today as stated in the 1948- as a spy. 4th Report of California Un-American Ac- Name Withheld tivities? I've never seen the Daily Worker Norfolk, Nebr.