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[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/01/arts/01CND-RING.html
Ring Lardner Jr., Member of Blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten,' Dies

excerpt:
"But by the time he began to serve what turned out to be a little 
more than nine months in 1950, he was quite astonished to learn that 
Congressman Thomas, was also imprisoned in Danbury after his 
conviction of defrauding the government by putting fictitious workers 
on his congressional payroll. Mr. Lardner and Mr. Thomas did not 
become friends in prison."