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...page 14 of the "Mods and Rockers Number" of the Lampoon, you will find an occasionally funny article by George W.S. Trow. A spoof of the Helen Gurley Brown Sex and...books, Trow's article is entitled...
Diaphragm Power. Elizabeth Flynn came young to radicalism. The daughter of an Irish nationalist from Galway. she was born in Concord, N.H., in 1890, educated in Bronx schools, and became a Socialist at 15 under her mother's maiden name of Gurley. A slim, blue-eyed girl with soft brown hair who wore a flaming red tie around her shirtwaist collar, she demanded among other things that all children be supported by the Government, thus freeing women of dependence...
Despite her high party posts, it is doubtful that Elizabeth Gurley Flynn had much influence on policy, for she was an agitator and orator rather than a Marxist dialectician or thinker. She wrote a chattily reminiscent column in the Daily Worker called "The Life of the Party," and always proved able to follow obediently every twist and turn of the party line. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the act denying passports to Communists, 74-year-old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was free to travel to the Soviet Union as a guest of the Kremlin, and there...
...guard just before the body was cremated, and a band played the Internationale as the urn of ashes was placed briefly at the foot of the Kremlin wall, near the spot where a portion of I.W.W. Founder Big Bill Haywood's ashes are buried. In due course, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's ashes will be flown to the U.S. and buried in Chicago's Waldheim Cemetery beside the remains of many old comrades (including the other part of Big Bill) from the Wobblies and the Communist Party...
Died. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, boss of the U.S. Communist Party since 1961; of a blood clot in the lung artery; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...