meeropol writes this incredible song. what else does he write? what becomes of him?-baited out of his school teaching position. he was examined during a kind of mccarthy-like set of inquiries in the early 1940s, and he leaves teaching. he goes to hollywood and tries his hand there for a little while, runs into the whole era of the hollywood ten, comes back to new york, sort of subsists writing shows, you know, for people, none of which ever really are terribly prominent-- you know, sort of off-broadway kinds of shows, operettas, things like this. the only other song that people will remember him for as of now, really, is the house i live in, which is a very famous song that frank sinatra made famous-- sang it in 1945. he wrote the lyrics to that song, but when he died, he died-- you know, the times ran an obituary on him. he died in 1986. but i think it's safe to say that he was pretty obscure when he died, and he was better known, really, for adopting the two rosenberg children than he was for anything else. he did pay a price for some of his political activities. y