FBI Finally Releases "Communist" Marilyn Monroe's Unredacted Files

Gothamist ^ | 12-28-2012 | Jen Carlson

[Carriage Hill]

You’re so right. And you’ve been around since the beginning, here, to see it all. I admire your time here, at FR.

[Theodore R.]

Lucille Ball was also a CP member in New York before she secured stardom. She later said that she joined the CPUSA because her grandfather insisted that she do so. Desi, Sr., though was not a leftist, as I understand it.

[Carriage Hill]

A tiny spill in an office or school today, would trigger a Police & HAZMAT response. It kinda reminds me of Hoppe’s Cleaning Fluid. (Just cleaning the Barrett triggered an olfactory stroll down memory lane...)

[smoothsailing]

I did too! Every kid I knew did.

Only the weird kids didn’t, and they were the ones who ate the paste! LOL!

[Albion Wilde]

Duplicates could also have been run off on a mimeograph machine. Remember the smell of the "duplication fluid"?

We had several different colors of dupe sheets for our elementary school newspaper so we could do special editions. Purple was standard, but we also had magenta and turquoise.

[smoothsailing]

Lucille Ball was also a CP member in New York before she secured stardom.

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin to do!"

[Albion Wilde]

I think MM smoked, but not sure.

[knarf]

Yeah ... mimeograph fluid, hoppe's and wd40 ... right up there with the greatest smells on earth ...

until y'discover girls.

wink

[smoothsailing]

All I remember is purple. I didn’t know there were other colors!

[Carriage Hill]

[Carriage Hill]

[Jane Long]

Michael Berry was just talking about mimeograph machines and the awesome memory of the smell of said pages on his show, this morning.

[Albion Wilde]

All I remember is purple. I didn’t know there were other colors!

I thought I "discovered" color registration -- running different parts of an illustration through the mimeo several times in the different colors -- until I went to work for a real printer years later!

[knarf]

I’m a lightweight airhead compared to some of those older names.

[Psalm 144]

I agree with you. Like Cher, a great entertainer. A lackluster mind, just swinging with the ‘in’ crowd.

[smoothsailing]

Three color separations-reminds me of my days in the newspaper business.

[Forgotten Amendments]

FISA (warantless wiretapping of all of us) passed again today. Not a peep on radio or cable TV. Yet, the Marilyn Monroe story is all over the place. And apparently, FR.

America, RIP.

[smoothsailing]

“The FISA Amendments Act of 2012 passed by a 73-23 margin, with large majorities of Democrats (31-20) and Republicans (42-3) supporting it.”

The World Socialist Website is not pleased...

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/29/pers-d29.html

[doorgunner69]

Kind of erases any fantasy of pasting a big wet kiss on her, unless you are a smoker, too.

Did date a few gals that smoked, never went beyond the first date. Yeeccchhh....