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Harold J. Laski, high ranking British Labor party member, has been invited to speak at the Harvard Law Forum on April 26, Roland Brown 3L, president of the Forum, announced yesterday...
Commenting on the action of the University of California, which recently harred Laski from making two scheduled speeches, Brown said that the Law Forum was "fundamentally opposed" to the western college's policy if that policy was based on purely political grounds...
...notably from two British writers. After seven years in the U.S., Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer decided that its people were terribly lonely and everlastingly fearful of looking like sissies. He came about as close to the mark as gadabout anthro-pologists-on-grant usually do. More pretentious was leftish Harold Laski's American Democracy, a glib, fat examination of the U.S. with capitalism as its aboriginal villain...
Tanner spent eight hours of each prison day writing four volumes of memoirs and several translations, including Harold Laski's Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time and Wendell Berge's Cartels: Challenge to a Free World. His earnings from royalties were between $10,000 and $37,000. After his daily stint, the onetime Foreign Minister would spend an hour or two playing the Italian bowling game boccie with nine fellow prisoners, all former cabinet ministers. "We all became champions at the game," says Tanner...
...just finished reading about Harold Laski's "tubthumping energy" [TIME, June 28] when I picked up the next issue and was confronted with the "thumping for Ike Eisenhower," the "thumping welcome" and "thumping recognition" given Mayor O'Dwver and Robinson Jeffers respectively, and the "tubthumping speeches" of the convention...