Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the same tired names the Communists use over & over, in slightly different combinations, for all their fronts: Singer Paul Robeson; Ben Gold, president of the International Fur Workers; Author Howard Fast (see below); Artist Rockwell Kent. There was one other useful name and a distinguished one: Author Thomas Mann...
...Mann home in California, Mann's daughter Erika rushed forth with a voluble explanation. About two weeks ago, she said, 75-year-old Dr. Mann got a letter from "a Cornell University physicist whom we know," inviting Mann to become a sponsor for a peace organization. The language was "highly civilized," and the seven names on the letterhead seemed "flawless." The names of Robeson, Fast et al. did not appear. "Otherwise, Dr. Mann would not have read further," said Miss Mann flatly...
...letter sounded innocuous-it took two nations to start a war; it was all right to be firm with Russia, but we must lead the way in creating an atmosphere of wanting world peace. This aim seemed "praiseworthy" to Dr. Mann, and he wrote that he would be delighted to lend his name, but did not feel he could help as an organizer. That was the last he had heard until the announcement appeared...
...typical story of a Communist dupe-and Thomas Mann had shown himself to be only too susceptible to the Communist shell game. The Warsaw Peace Conference had elected Dr. Mann to its presidium in absentia, and Mann had had to cable a protest and his explanation: he had written France's Communist Dr. Joliot-Curie refusing to attend the conference but expressing his sympathy for Joliot-Curie's efforts for peace. Mann had refused to sign the Stockholm petition, but had sent a recorded message to Chicage's Mid-Century Conference for Peace, taken over...
...Wilder, who is giving the second half of Humanities 2 in Sanders Theatre. Wilder, who is a renowned early breakfaster, should be in fine form by ten. Professor Levin, who used to give Hum. 2b, can be found at this hour in Harvard 4, lecturing on Proust, Joyce, and Mann in Comp. Lit. 162. You'll need a knowledge of either French or German for this one. People more addicted to the Social Sciences might well check in at Mallinckrodt MB-9 for Fainsod's lectures on Soviet Government. Fainsod is a director of the Russian Research Center...