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23 Jan 06 - 08:34 AM (#1654097) Subject: Happy! – Jan 23 (Millard Lampell) From: Abby Sale Happy Birthday! Millard Lampell was born 1/23/1919 (d.10/3/1997) Lampell, was an Emmy-winning writer (1966), novelist and songwriter. During the McCarthy era, in1950 he was blacklisted for refusing to tell the Senate Committee on Internal Security about his political affiliations. For several years he was forced to use a psedudonym. Lampell helped form the pre-revival classic folk group, Almanac Singers, a precursor to the Weavers. He was the author of two novels. [per LA Times which had DOB as 1/10/1919][thanx Mark D. Moss of "Sing Out!"] Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky |