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...during November, the President unexpectedly rescheduled two of them. The third, Professor Lerner's speech, "An Open Mind in an Open Society," was reported under consideration, and later also rescheduled...
...College in Huntington, West Virginia fell victim to pressure more specific than a loyalty oath. The Legion post in Huntington matched its "guide books" with the proposed lecture series at Marshall College and found three similarities: Margaret Bourke-White, a Life photographer; Paul Engle, a poet; and Professor Max Lerner of Brandeis University. The Legionaires protested vigorously, and finally, the President of the College cancelled the three lectures...
...days later the college reversed its stand and re-scheduled the Engine and Bourke-White talks, while withholding decision on whether to ask Lerner to appear. Lerner was to have talked the evening before the college rendered its verdict...
...poppycock," Lerner said yesterday in denying the Legion's charges. "There is absolutely nothing in my record that I'm the least bit ashamed...
...Lerner, editor of the "Nation" from 1936 to '38, said the Committee "objected to my supporting some letterheads (like the American Writers Congress) during the Spanish Civil War days." He noted these groups soon folded up and added, "I don't belong to any organizations at all at the present time...