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EVERYTHING BUT MONEY by Sam Levenson. 285 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Papa Levenson's career was the very opposite of the standard American success story at the beginning of the century. He used to start with money and end up broke. This made life pretty grim in the squalid East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil...
Lewis and Daniel Levenson '54, a Law-school for the American Civil Liberties Don in Boston, debated "Extremist Groups in American Society" before a law School Forum audience of about...
...Levenson, who defined extremists as "groups tending to place the state over the rights of the individual," said that "the crisis of extremism will be with us for many years," and would be "intensified" by the continuing pressure of Communism abroad and "bigness" at home. He said the "great danger lies in their assault on the public educational system...
Fulton Lewis III, former field secretary for the Young Americans for Freedom, and Daniel Levenson, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, will speak on "Extremist Groups in America" at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Harvard Law School Forum...