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Twenty Widener Library scrubwomen had to quit their jobs in 1929 because for nine years, contrary to a State law, they had been working at two cents under the 35 cent hourly wage minimum. The following spring, however, a champion enlisted their cause. He was Corliss Lamont '24. At the head of an indignant alumni group he offered personally to solicit from other alumni the scrubwomen's back pay," amounting to $280 each, if the University did not reimburse hem, which it promptly did. This militant defense of the underdog is characteristic of Lamont. From the moment he found himself...
...Corliss Lament's macabre ritual [TIME, Nov. 22] is fine for a dead dog but hardly befits a human being who has an immortal soul. If even atheists "have a hankering for music and a few well chosen words," it is not unthinkable that in the terrible moment of suspension between life and death, they might also have a hankering for a Reality that is wider than music and higher than Santayana's quiet despair. It would be an injustice . . . to force upon them the inhumanity of "A Humanist Funeral Service." They will get a much more sympathetic...
...himself be buried without fuss. After all, why make much ceremonial ado about a body that has just passed into Nothing? But in practice, even atheists have a hankering for music and a few well-chosen words, and this pressing problem has just been taken up by Corliss Lamont, 52, the wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality," and he still insists that "death is the final end of the individual...
...Corliss Lamont '24 pleaded the First Amendment in face of his indictment yesterday in New York charging him with contempt of the Senate before the subcommittee led by Senator Joseph F. McCarthy...
...Dragon defending champions, Dave Trachtenberg and Jim Walsh, retained their titles, with Trachtenberg beating G. R. Schien of Lowell in the 175-lb. class and Walsh topping Pete Coker of Adams in the 135-lb. division. In the lightweight final, Dudley's Jerry Bresnahan decisioned teammate Frank Corliss to give Dudley its 18 point total...