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Sara Northrup Hubbard in April 1951, when she was suing Hubbard for the return of their baby daughter, Alexis
On the day of the divorce, Ron was convinced that the spell the Communists had cast
over Sara would be broken, and she would come back to him. When they walked out of
the courtroom, Sara told him that she had to get their daughter. Ron took her to the
place where Alexis was being held. Sara said that the last thing she had to do was go to
the airport. She already had a ticket. Then the enchantment would dissolve and she
would be free.
On the day of her scheduled departure, Ron drove Sara and Alexis to the airport. “We
got halfway there and he said he wasn’t going to do it,” Sara recalled.
“You’re going to get on that plane and go away, aren’t you?” Ron said.
“Well, I have to follow their dictates,” Sara replied. “I’ll just go to the airplane.”
Ron parked the car. He told her that he couldn’t stand the idea that she would be
under the inuence of psychiatrists, and that he might never see either of them again.
“I’m not going to let you go,” he said.
“I got out of the car, it was on the edge of the aireld,” Sara remembered. “I left all
Alexi’s clothes in the car, I left my suitcase, one of her shoes fell o and I had my purse.
I just ran across the aireld, across the runways, to the airport and got on the plane.
And it was the nineteenth of June and it was the happiest day of my life.”
IN THE SPACE of a year, Hubbard had gone from destitution and obscurity to great wealth