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Joseph Goldstein is an elderly New York lawyer and ex-city magistrate who likes to tilt at educational windmills-and sometimes bowls them over. In 1940 he helped unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film...
...LAWRENCE'S LETTERS TO BERTRAND RUSSELL (111 pp.)-Edited,with on introduction by Harry T. Moore-Gotham Book Mart...
...present case the forgiving listener was the Hon.* Bertrand Russell, 43-year-old lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, one of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century. The year was 1915-16; D. H. Lawrence was 30 and beginning to be well known, but in the middle of a "spiritual crisis" that was plunging him into "utter darkness of chaos." All that Russell and Lawrence had in common was a passionate objection to the continuance of World War I, and Lawrence hoped that they might not only get together...
...last September, in California's Central Valley, Candidate Harry Truman made his political advisers wince with an off-the-cuff attack on hard-shelled Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart. Said Harry Truman: "You have got a terrible Congressman here. He has done everything he possibly could do to cut the throats of the farmer and the laboring man." Some of his aides, remembering the lesson of F.D.R.'s purge, argued that personal attacks often boomeranged in favor of the target. But wherever he went, Harry Truman never ceased to "pour it on" Republican members of the 80th Congress...
When the count of the new House of Representatives was completed last week, seven-termer Bertrand Gearhart was at the bottom of the wreckage of 75 Republican seats. He was soundly beaten by a man who had never before run for public office: tall, 47-year-old Cecil White, a cotton rancher who campaigned by radio and in his small airplane...