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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cobb's letter in Tuesday's CRIMSON complains that the pro-UMT side was not given a hearing at Saturday's rally, and defends the heckling on this ground. But the meeting was frankly advertised as a rally,--not a forum, or a discussion group, or a debate in any sense. And surely Mr. Cobb does not contend that the mob of cat-callers had any intention of engaging in serious discussion, or that they attended the meeting with any purpose other than that of disruption. To call the representatives of such a mob "responsible" is manifestly absurd...
...them prefaced their speeches with declarations in support of the Marshall Plan; three of these represented groups which in effect bar Communists from membership. In the light of these facts, the reference to the "true sentiments" of "most of the speakers" appears to be somewhat on the shady side of the truth...
Most unscrupulous and most famous Okhrana agent was Evno Azef. He went so far in preventive criminology that he became a leader of the pre-revolutionary Socialists whom he was assigned to watch. He betrayed each side to the other, not once or twice, but day in & day out over nearly 20 years. He sent his revolutionary comrades to Siberia and organized the murder of several Czarist bigwigs. Where did his real sympathies lie? Probably with Azef. He managed to get out of the country and lived out his days in Germany, peacefully playing the stockmarket and horsing around...
...Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
Last week's primary in New Hampshire -the first test of 1948-illustrated their point. Tom Dewey won six delegates-no less than he had expected. Harold Stassen won the other two-no more than actually expected. Each side was satisfied. Dewey's organization power was proved again. So was Stassen's vote appeal; Stassemen led in almost every town and hamlet in which he had done some personal campaigning. But in New Hampshire there was no real bandwagon enthusiasm for either...