[2] Clients included Joshua Logan and Elia Kazan,[5] and Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman.
"[6] He served as general counsel and managing director of radio and television programming for the Theatre Guild.
He was responding to the murders in July of four young African Americans in the Moore's Ford lynchings in Georgia, which had outraged people across the United States.
Fitelson raised numerous questions intended to identify issues in the case and challenge statements that had already been made by some figures.
[2] Fitelson had a wide circle of acquaintances, and corresponded with New York intellectuals such as philosopher Sidney Hook[10] and art historian Meyer Schapiro.