Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's brittle little Bishop Manning started it. Month ago he wrote a letter to the newspapers, viewing with alarm Bertrand Russell's appointment to teach mathematics and logic at the College of the City of New York, quoted the learned Earl's views on adultery (TIME, March 11). Last week, with the aid of a Brooklyn housewife and a morally aroused judge, the Bishop...
...made the Russell appointment her business because her daughter might be going to C. C. N. Y. some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance she filed a taxpayer's suit in New York Supreme Court to oust the Earl, on grounds that he was an alien and an advocate of sexual immorality...
...Goldstein with his plaintiff and four of his Lordship's published works,* proceeded to review the offending books. Said Critic Goldstein, Philosopher Russell's writings are "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Furthermore, he roared, the Earl had run an English nudist colony, gone in for salacious poetry, winked at homosexuality...
...That, all these things being true, Earl Russell's appointment was hereby revoked...
...Hollywood, the CBS backstagers found famed Producer Earl Carroll and his hand-picked girls rehearsing at Paramount for A Night at Earl Carroll's. He introduced two, Ann Barrisford, right from Hollywood, and Morine Howell, a college-bred cutie from Utah. Said Producer Carroll, "I have come to the conclusion that brown-eyed girls have better figures than blue-eyed girls...