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Happy Birthday!
Millard Lampell
was born 1/10/1919 (dOct 3, 1997)
Lampell, was an Emmy-winning writer (1966), novelist and songwriter.
During the McCarthy era, 1950 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 group, Almanac Singers a precursor to the Weavers.
He was the author of two novels.
[per LA Times][& thanx Mark D. Moss of Sing Out!]
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