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Times about the Rosenbergs: "I would not take the position that they were completely innocent." At this point a man jumped up in the audience and screamed from the depths, "He never said that!...
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...Showing great pain and pressure, he insisted he was quoted out of context and that " I made it very clear to him that I was innocent, and that I thought that Julius and Ethel were just as innocent as I was...
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...The only problem is that I'm afraid I'm dealing with some very tough people...
...Didn't that happen right near Alabama...
...People screamed, "Let her talk...
...Radosh and Milton's discoveries will continue to be called "garbage," as the Schneirs so delicately put it, and the clean, unsullied part, the view of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg as the pure "progressive" couple working for peace and brotherhood...
...She drives a 1965 Volkswagen beetle, battered almost beyond recognition, with the personalized license plate "HAD NOT...
...Then she had watched to dinner some night," she asked...
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...Fantastic," he said, "where did you say this happened...
...Where was this...
...After about fifty feet, I came upon a pale, beautiful young woman stand...
...with her husband and daughter...
...None that I know of, Marie," I said...
...The thing is," he said, "that I'm getting a little tired of the shoe business and the company I sell for has made me a very attractive offer to act as an independent shoe middleman (which reminded me of what a great offer England, Austria, and Russia made to Napoleon, setting him up as an independent emperor on St...
...Of course not," I said...
...Morris Cohen, "whom the FBI knew as associates of the Rosenbergs...
...Which on e ? ' ' She looked stumped and waved her hand airily...
...People at this agency consider you a major talent," she added...
...T r a c i , " I said...
...Really," I said...
...The typists at the Department of Health and Human Services wear mini-skirts and white socks...
...Of course," I said...
...Maybe you could have her get assassinated," I suggested...
...Thank you," I said...
...Gosh, no thanks," I said...
...So is there any way we could work this around so that it d i d n ' t look as if we were coming down too hard just on the Russians...
...Really love i t . " "I understand," I said...
...At least that's the word I hear...
...teacher said...
...She added, "The only problem is that I can't think of a plot...
...Y e s , " I said...
...That earlier story said that Bittaker's bride was a former male cellmate of Bittaker who had fallen in love with Bittaker...
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...I wish I'd thought of that," I said...
...Off he went to America, to teach at Georgetown University...
...L e t me ask you t h i s , " said the man with the F e r r a r i key...
...It makes you really, really high...
...Are you getting any closer...
...Is that a new kitten...
...T h a t ' s to put on my Rolls convertible...
...I t ' s important enough that it could be a TV movie of the week...
...F o r example, on a scale somewhat more manageable than Bittaker's, I frequently have lunch with a young hustler named Dan...
...Just let me say this," she said...
...No," I said...
...D i d n ' t that happen right near Alabama...
...Really great...
...It tells you to just put your mind where you want to be and you'll get there...
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...F o r example, a meeting with two young studio executives on the west side of town in an all gray, fabricwalled, high-tech office with clocks showing the time in Djakarta and Tunis as well as New York and Hawaii and L.A., in which both studio executives toyed with their car keys while I spoke...
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...Very, very important," she added after a pause...
...T r a c i , w h a t ' s wrong...
...Yes, indeed," the teacher said...
...A haunting moment came as Joyce Milton was answering a question about the lost console table that the Rosenbergs were alleged to have used for microfilming and that was later discovered in the home of Julius Rosenberg's sister...
...You s e e , " she said, "that's part of the way I live my life...
...Not r e a l l y , " he said...
...Through her tears she told me that she had been beaten up by her boyfriend, a rock songwriter and musician...
...Did you ever pay off...
...It was very clear...
...Julius and Ethel Rosenberg continue to carry a heavy burden...
...What we'd do is get a lot of highschool football players and sign them up to take care of the housewives in the afternoons," she said...
...The General agreed to resign everything and live in disgrace for the rest of his life and his d a u g h t e r left and now lives in Washington, D.C...
...Dan leaned back in his chair and said, " I t ' s all right...
...You promise to keep it a secret...
...I just get another kitten and call her Lucille just like the others...
...I asked...
...How long have you had i t ? " I asked...
...strength perhaps it involves some inherent humor already, but I don't really see a dark tale of sexual obsession.and murder as a comedy...
...But he toyed around, asking me hypothetical questions . . . . " 9. Other cries from the audience to Radosh and Milton: "What are you doing with your profits from your book...
...Thank you," I said...
...There never was much hope that Los Angeles would become like Boston, and Boston never really had much hope of withstanding L.A...
...I asked...
...I want to start a business," she said, "and I know you have a lot of connections on Wall Street and maybe you could help me get financing...
...Just this month the wife came to Washington...
...he asked...
...First of all, you have to understand that I love it...
...She woke up several hours later and said that she had better try to hitchhike back to San Antonio...
...L i s t e n , " he said, leaning forward, "you want some...
...The story is that a few years ago, there was a beautiful teenage girl in Russia who was the daughter of a top Red Army General...
...Well, that is a problem," I said...
...He had the young man sent to prison, to the Gulag, then to a military prison, and still his daughter loved him...
...I told her to take a nap in my wife's dressing room...
...He let the young man out, then he told his daughter they could be married and emigrate...
...I think a serious writer like you is the only person who could do it justice...
...I asked as the dogs strained at their leashes...
...In what room was it in Ethel Goldberg's house...
...and New York and Chicago and Sarasota and San Francisco and I Observe that throughout this great republic the line between the dream and the awake is disappearing as a Benjamin J. Stein's latest book is The Manhattan Gambit (Doubleday...
...Do we have to take notes on t h i s ? " she asked...
...W e l l , " I said, " t o t a l l y unexpectedly, the wife of one of the white victims suddenly starts to feel uncontrollable sexual longings for this black man while her husband is actually being prepared for murder...
...Now just let me get something straight," the production executive with the Ferrari key said as I headed for the door...
...I brought her back to the house, where I offered her tea...
...Have you ever heard of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company...
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...F o r example, an item on the KNX radio news recently correcting an earlier story...
...She is 45 years old and an overpowering large bosomed blonde who lives in a suburb far out in the Conejo Valley, which makes the San Fernando Valley look like Park Avenue in the sixties for sophistication...
...Sally used it for ten years and was very happy with it...
...by her boyfriend's beating her...
...Can you tell me what it might be about...
...As friends tried to restrain the trembling woman, her voice again pleaded, "Julius never knew about that...
...That leads to the next problem which is that we don't like to do anything that doesn't have an American lead and isn't set in America...
...The Japanese already have tons of it because, see, they were bombed once with atom bombs, so t h e y ' v e been secretly stockpiling it just in case," he said...
...We're talking very now, very stylized Neil Simon comedy here, right...
...Go on with your pitch," he added with an airy wave of the hand...
...It is true that, as the Rosenberg friends contend, we do not know the whole truth of the case and that more information will continue to filter out from the files and other sources...
...Do you think any of your friends on Wall Street would be interested in putting up some seed money for the plan...
...As I turned a corner, past a man working on his BMW in front of a $300,000 house, a man stood holding a black and white kitten in his hand...
...I said, leaning forward expectantly...
...Well," I said, "in the sense that it involves a certain amount of r e v e r s a l of roles of power and of "Here's the plan...
...While there are still a few Checkpoint Charlies around the nation separating what is awake from what is asleep, I offer a few pointers on what to expect once the merger of the sane and insane is complete...
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...I'm so busy I can't think straight...
...It takes place in a small town in Alabama where, sixty years ago, an innocent black man was lynched for looking lustfully at a white woman...
...It was really funny...
...She needed tutoring in mathematics, so Dad hired a Jew, a young guy who was a whiz in math, to tutor her...
...It's just our way of acquainting you with our "bend-over backwards" policy of giving you the most for your money...
...and Mrs...
...You can just put some under your tongue in the men's room...
...F o r example, the beautiful blonde woman who works as a receptionist at my former agency: She sits behind a desk, looking like a marble goddess of femininity and allure, with her dark blue eyes and her hair pulled straight back...
...Now, they have so much they d o n ' t know what to do with it, so some very heavy hitters in the drug business came to me because they know I can move merchandise very quickly," Dan said, thrusting forward his chest in his thin leather jacket...
...F o r example, my friend Dan called last night to tell me that he had still not sold his interferon...
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...Female mud w r e s t l i n g , " she said...
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...16 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1984 F o r example, Marie Richardson, the mother of a young woman who works for me...
...He begins by locking up the leading white family in a house and lynching the men slowly while their wives watch...
...Plus, maybe I could franchise the whole operation...
...she asked...
...The students had apparently had a rough night and were generally either filing their nails or reading Car and Driver...
...I live in the middle of that miasma and drive its freeways every day...
...I think it may be too serious for me," I said...
...The Rosenberg case will remain a pivotal one, for it turns back the clock to a world view that had the remnants of credibility for the Stalinist Left in 1950, before the worst revelations about the Gulag were admitted by the Russians themselves...
...I t ' s a unique kind of project...
...Shortly after the Rosenbergs were executed, a street in an East European country was named after them...
...The students still had not looked up...
...The production executive pocketed his keys and stroked his beard and said, "Right, right, I just wanted to raise the issue...
...Have you thought about Joan Didion...
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...Now I get it," I said...
...The earlier story said that Lawrence Bittaker, the convicted "freeway strangler" who had killed at least twenty teenage boys in a homosexual spree in 1980, had married a certain woman named "Mary...
...No," I said...
...F o r example, two weeks ago, I took my dogs, Martha and Trixie, for a walk on a rainy Sunday morning...
...Finally, the General t r i e d a trick...
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...They turned up in London as Peter and Helen Kroger, antiquarian book dealers specializing in sadomasochistic pornography...
...Dan is in the children's shoe business and I guess he moves a lot of shoes...
...It was one of my first jobs...
...So they got married and she had a baby almost immediately...
...You're so literal...
...The man was tall and thin in an airline p i l o t ' s kind of way, which is right for once because he is an airline pilot...
...Do you promise to keep this a secret...
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...I'll give you the money for air fare and you can go tonight...
...That means I'll have a lot of free time to work on making the interferon story into a movie...
...I asked...
...All right," he said...
...I'm still thinking about it...
...If I'm going back, I'd like to go to Sassoon and get my hair done before I go...
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...To stimulate discussion, the teacher asked me if I had considered writing a novel about the first woman President...
...She turned to me and said, "So you are going to do it as a comedy...
...Is t h e r e any way the story could be changed around so that it's an American general and it's set, say, in Texas...
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...F i n e , " I said and walked on...
...It's a religion called psychocybernetics...
...It's about something very private, very personal that I've been involved with myself...
...she asked...
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...There are no Ivy League colleges in L.A., if you get the picture...
...I plan for that to be my next movie...
...Listen," I said...
...Well," she said, "can I wait until tomorrow...
...I wonder if you could take me out sonal," she said, stroking her blond hair with her Volkswagen key...
...But if you meet anyone who wants to buy some interferon, you know where to tell 'em to look, right...
...T h a t ' s r i g h t , " Sally said...
...The one about interferon will be my next movie...
...This view will continue to f'md its advocates among those who cannot accept a world in which the Left stands for anything but innocence...
...Amazing," I said...
...But I think maybe I can sell a movie about it...
...She wore only a dirty tennis dress and was shivering...
...Where do you get these stories...
...We talked for a few minutes more about the bloody climax in which the Alabama state troopers surround the house and the wife decides to stay in the house and die with the black man and then I got up to leave...
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...F o r example, a recent speech I gave at a local university which is set on a pleasing knoll overlooking the Pacific Ocean...
...You d i d ? " I asked...
...No one in L.A...
...She said that and then I hung up...
...Let me explain to you...
...Do you have herbal...
...As far as I can tell, the woman has always lived in straitened circumstances...
...Good idea, Marie," I said...
...This one is gonna go," he said...
...I t ' s a dark tale of revenge and sexual obsession," I said...
...Give it more thought and come back to me on i t , " he said...
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...rides the subway, so you can see just how much the nation's capital means and how much L.A...
...It's for a stud service for suburban housewives, like up in Thousand Oaks where I live...
...Joyce Milton continued to speak, now about the sample of uranium David Greenglass was supposed to have stolen from Los Alamos and thrown into the East River...
...he asked...
...While she's sleeping with some really important guy...
...I t ' s the damn recession, man," he added...
...What was your last movie...
...The Schneirs defined much of what Radosh and Milton have uncovered as the "garbage" of the case: including the role of Jerome David Tartakow, the informer in prison to whom Julius Rosenberg bragged about his espionage activities, and the larger spy network of which Sarant and Barr were a part...
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...No," I said...
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...In my wallet, I have a very small quantity of interferon...
...In that moment, Julius Rosenberg was more alive and represented in Town Hall than he ever would be by his ideological defenders...
...I see," I said...
...It occurred to me that Sobell, even if he wanted to speak out more plainly about the Rosenbergs now, would feel constrained by the emotional expectations of such partisans as the man who cried out in the audience...
...Right," I said and walked out into the rain...
...There's no reason at all why it couldn't work all over the country, is there...
...This is the big one for me...
...The woman lives in what might be called "straitened" circumstances in a small cottage in West L.A...
...I don't think so...
...But there are two big problems with it...
...The first two got sick and died," he said, lowering his voice to a whisper as he said " d i e d . " "But I c a n ' t deal with illness...
...condition is then taken for granted and treated as normal by the rest of society, which is also undergoing powerful dissociation from reality...
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...That's for when I'm rich," she said...
...Wow," the executive said...
...But you don't have it yet," I said...
...Rebecca West wrote in The New Meaning of Treason of Mr...
...had undergone a sex change operation, and was now married although hopelessly separated from Mr...
...A l l r i g h t , " the executive said with a heavy sigh...
...You bet THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1984 15 me a Polaroid camera we were all going to die That was when they were really expensive, too...
...Well, tell me about i t , " I said, "although most of the people I know on Wall Street are only interested in lending money to Yugoslavia...
...Practically next door," 1 said...
...I think she's interested in an M.O.W...
...All t h a t talk about Alabama reminds me of the Cuban Missile C r i s i s , " Sally said...
...I'm so grateful," I said...
...Well," I said, "this one was in the papers, but wait until the end...
...She may be more into serious subjects than I am...
...about mud wrestling...
...They were the only friends or family she had "on earth...
...The executive, a man of forty years' experience in movies and TV, toyed with a greenbronze pre-Columbian dagger while I talked to him...
...What's the favor...
...A t the place where the border between the conscious and the unconscious ends lies LosAngeles...
...Really...
...In Russia," I said...
...I have some in my wallet...
...A voice out of the past cried out, "Could you tell me what part of the house that was in...
...Remember we all thought we were going to die," Sally said wistfully...
...The thing is," he said, "that l've been given a very small quantity of something to see if I can sell it and I have to know if it's real...
...See, they're making it already in Japan in really large quantities and they want to smuggle it into this country, because the FDA won't let them sell it here...
...Dan asked...
...So then," I continued, "the daughter went on a hunger strike and was j u s t about dead when the father's heart melted and he told his daughter he would try to get her out...
...Then the f a t h e r , the General, told her she couldn't leave and the marriage was invalid and when she p r o t e s t e d he put her in a mental hospital," I said, all in one breath...
...Some of my friends who deal coke are into something really, really major...
...You're an ideologue...
...see," I said...
...I loved it...
...In 1950, after Harry Gold had been arrested and had led the FBI to Greenglass, the Rosenbergs gave the Cohens the signal to leave...
...My speech was about writing novels based on political events...
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...All right," he said...
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...I had seen her walking her b o y f r i e n d ' s dog, a horribly illkept shepherd, on earlier days...
...One man had a Porsche key...
...But the unfolding truth will not be a source of comfort to them, and they will continue to reinvent a truth of their own...
...14 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1984 But what lies in store for the rest of America once it is thoroughly Los Angelesized has only a little bit to do with hot tubs or dressing like a Val...
...she asked...
...It has a lot more to do with the u t t e r dissociation of a human mind, which "All that talk about Alabama reminds me of the Cuban Missile Crisis," Sally said...
...For their national leaders, see...
...A student raised her hand...
...That evening, I told the story to my friends Al and Sally...
...Yes, indeed," he said...
...We will gradually learn more about other members of the larger Rosenberg spy ring, including names little known at this point...
...Right," I said...
...I think so...
...Yes...
...I asked...
...What's that license plate all about...
...They fell in love, see, and the General was very angry...
...That way I don't have to face sickness, which is something I really cannot tolerate anyway...
...In 1961 they were convicted as part of the "Naval Secrets" spy ring...
...I asked her not tong ago, over the telephone...
...Only if it's a secret," she said...
...Now, the black man's grandson, a totally hip, with-it Vietnam vet is back to take revenge on the whole town...
...That's going to be a tough one," I said, "since the U.S...
...Not really at all, but I just want to be prepared for when I do...
...I've often thought about it," said the teacher, a refined woman with a giant gold necklace that read "Let's Play In My Porsche...
...It was the voice of Julius Rosenberg's sister, Ethel Goldberg Appel, a coiffured woman in her late fifties...
...See, I figure that she's a secretary and she gets to be a congresswoman by sleeping with a lot of guys and then she gets to be a senator by sleeping with the right guys, and then finally she gets to be President by sleeping with a lot of guys, but I can't really figure out any more than that and that's just like, well, almost a documentary and it doesn't have much jeopardy," the English Lit...
...Not really," she said...
...You want to help...
...So he went to his bosses and they told him that his daughter could leave only if the General resigned all his posts, quit the army, and lived in internal exile for the rest of his life...
...It's to show that I was once a 'have not' person, sort of like a 'have not' nation like we learned about in school, but that now I have it all...
...Of course, what with television and movies coming to shape more and more of daily life, and what with movies and television all coming out of Los Angeles, it was inevitable that the state of mind of Los Angeles would take hold all over the United States, like an irresistible, grinning body s n a t c h e r . All of the momentum, comrade, is on the side of the city that controls the media, just for starters...
...How so...
...Bittaker's wife was not that woman, who had married another convict, but a born-again Christian woman who had fallen in love with Bittaker during his trial, while he was recounting details of some of the murders...
...G r e a t , g r e a t , " said one of the studio executives...
...AI is one of the most successful sitcom producers in history (something like one of the most famous carwash owners in history, as he likes to say) and Sally has a key ring that says, " I live for revenge...
...I want to talk to you about writing something very important...
...I just c a n ' t face it at all...
...First, the nets are really scared of anything that seems to be too politically one-sided...
...Well, I'll tell you anyway, but it's really important," she said...
...I see," I said...
...After he told me about his plans to get rich quick by producing a series of video tapes about protecting your dog or cat from kidnaping, he leaned forward confidentially...
...So I pretty much act as if it didn't happen...
...No,'* I said...
...I'll tell you...
...l~an and I met for breakfast at the Hamburger Hamlet last week...
...F o r example, a certain real estate saleswoman I know...
...Very private and very perhorrified as he had thrown her clothes in the fireplace and burned them...
...Both men lit cigars and then offered me one as I got ready for my pitch...
...I have something t h a t ' s truly unbelievable...
...Wow," said the executive...
...Remember that...
...Oh, for about ten y e a r s , " she said...
...She'had nowhere to go, thirty cents in her pocketbook, and was completely alone in Los Angeles...
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...She told me that her father was dead and that her mother lived with her stepfather in San Antonio...
...That's too pathetic...
...The new o n e , " she said...
...H e r e ' s the plan...
...So I have some, and I told them I'd test it to make sure it's real and if it's real, I'd take a few million worth from them...
...I also travel outside of Los Angeles to Washington, D.C...
...Before I could go on, the studio exec with the Ferrari key said, " I love it...
...I t ' s still in my mind," he said...
...he asked...
...She told me she had been awakened at two a.m...
...The new one was about a close friend who had died from addiction to Quaaludes, but I shined it on...
...I hadn't thought of that," I said...
...J o a n D i d i o n , " said the blonde r e c e p t i o n i s t . "How do you spell that...
...J u s t really amazing," he said...
...Did you know that...
...I read your b o o k , " she told me one recent morning...
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...This kind of thing will come in very handy in your political science classes, too...
...A shaking voice rang out: "Julie never knew about that...
...It's sort of about the problem of the disappearing family, right...
...But he told her he would let the young man out first and then a year later, she could leave...
...wasn't really involved until the very end...
...Last week she called to ask me if I could do her " a humongous favor...
...Do you have a lab or something where they can test a substance for purity...
...There are now four hot-tub dealers on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard...
...Several years later, the street's name was changed...
...I think you'll be pretty surprised...
...Bittaker...
...W80, N.Y., N.Y...
...Does it have a schedule...
...You know what that stuff can do...
...F o r example, a meeting with a major power at a network concerning a true life story which had happened out there in the world...
...How would you feel about making this into an all-out farce comedy...
...I asked...
...He interrupted the pitch to tell me that he had been to Alabama and that it was really amazing there...
...The other had a Ferrari key...
...He played with a golf ball with a Mercedes emblem on it and then said, "Maybe we could set it up as a kind of 'plague on both your houses' situation with us and the Russians equally to blame...
...In this view America was surely turning fascist, and its enemies had to be "antifascists...
...I certainly did," Al said...
...You are a really great writer...
...T h a t i m p o r t a n t , " I said...
...That's your problem," she said with a sigh...
...I have a really full production schedule...
...I asked...
...So, too, will the sophistries of the Rosenberg defenders change with the immediate needs of the moment, or the pressures of reality--i.e., the Schneirs will no longer only state of Sarant and Barr as they did in the first edition of their book that they were "presumably living abroad...
...Nobody on the jury was Jewish...
...You promise to keep this really, really secret...
...No peers...
...In a kind of weirdly derationalized zone lies the city, the state of mind where there is no clear demarcation between the real and the fantasy, the fact and the imagination...
...I certainly do," A! said...
...I l i k e to think that all of them are the same...
...Gosh, I'm sorry," I said...
...In Russia," I said...
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