Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Felix's music, listeners heard a few characteristically lovely lieder-like tunes. But most of the score was more reminiscent of Mozart than of Mendelsohn. Considering that when Felix wrote it Mozart had been in his grave for nearly 40 years, there was little of wit or originality...
...Harry A. Mendelsohn '48, president of HYD, issued a strong statement condemning "the little list" of Attorney General Clark as "subversive in itself...
Walker comments that "The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him, I've never seen his disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups." I can only say of the first statement that I find it highly flattering, because the "thing" was one of the finest demonstrations ever to take place in Boston, and, indeed, ranks high on the long list of demonstrations which have been organized against Smith throughout the country. As for the second...
...wrote such a sentence as "If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them," did not know the organizing group was Communist. Their accusing the CRIMSON of spreading "the untruth that resistance to Smith was . . . primarily Communist" is at best disingenuous. The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him I've never seen him disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups. If this was not Communist led, the burden of proof lies on those charging...
...Henry A. Mendelsohn '48, temporary president of the newly-chartered Harvard Youth for Democracy, (pictured above the first of two pickets carrying the "No Free Speech. . . . ." signa), led a small Square delegation that paraded with about 100 others before the doors of the Old South Meeting House, protesting Smith's appearance...