Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story was wrong, he continued, except the part about the "baggy pants." The article, by Eugene Griffin, described the Student Outlines office as "a cluttered third floor space presided over by a man in baggy pants...
...Eugene Griffin, in the next to last article of his series on "Harvard and its connections with left wingers," devoted a column and a half to comments and quotations from a Hymarx edition entitled "Governments of England and Russia," written by Alfred H. Rosenthal '33. In the article, headlined "Russia Termed a Paradise in Harvard Book," Griffin said that "the book has a sympathetic, glowing tone thruout toward communist Russia...
...impression that Griffin received from the "Harvard Coop book" was that Russia is a "sort of paradise of happy, contented people, better off in several ways than any other people in the world." Griffin further quoted the Hymarx as calling American newspapers "the prostituted vehicles of capitalism...
...investigation by Griffin of Student Outlines Company, Boston, publishers of Hymarx editions, revealed that the company occupies "a cluttered third floor space presided over by a man in baggy pants." Added to this, "the man upstairs did not want to talk much about his business...
...both 1948 and 1949 Griffin also wrote a series of articles attacking the University as a "hotbed" of Communism...