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...organization of the Fabian Society, defunct since 1951, began last night with the formation of a student committee to draw up its constitution. The Society will probably be primarily a study group to help liberals develop an intellectual basis for their beliefs, Tim F. Harding '56, chairman of the committee, said...
...Although the group is called the Fabian Society, students do not have to be socialists to join," Harding said. The Society will only exclude advocates of totalitarianism as required by the Student League for Industrial Democracy of which the group will be an affiliate, Harding said. "We have no connection with any Fabian groups," he added...
...Russia also reserves the right to put in a claim, based on the 1820-21 voyage of Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen, a Baltic German in the service of Czar Alexander I. Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards, to his disappointment, he met a mariner who had been there before him: a Yankee named Nathaniel Palmer, skipper of a U.S.-flag sealer. Bellingshausen (clearly the kind of sportsman who would displease the Soviet Union today), magnanimously named the territory he had sighted after Palmer...
...ailing chain, saw the trial as a rare opportunity. He ordered a task force dispatched to Cleveland, led by Sob Sister Dorothy Kilgallen (TIME, Nov. 15), Handyman Bob Considine and Cartoonist Burris Jenkins Jr. (for courtroom sketches). Scripps-Howard followed suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would not have been allowed." Even the conservative New York Herald Tribune sent a specialist: Margaret Parton, whose literate, low-keyed reporting, the first such crime reporting...
...Socialist dogma: capitalist nations cannot be progressive; the U.S. is capitalist: therefore, the U.S. is an anti-social exploiter, Q.E.D. British Socialists have a special resentment against American capitalism: it works. A decaying American capitalism could be treated with the tolerance and condescension that is the hallmark of the Fabian spirit. But neither Fabius nor Sidney Webb would know what to do with a capitalist enemy that really achieves its ends. The success of American capitalism in raising American living standards can neither be believed nor forgiven. It can only be evaded by talking of "the American treasure house...