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...late plane kept Paul Robeson from speaking to the College at 5:15 p.m. yesterday--a half hour later than the Young Progressives had said he would speak, and almost two hours later than he was originally scheduled to speak. Robeson, however, gave the CRIMSON the substance of his speech in an interview last night, and said he hopes to give a concert here some time in March...
First hint that Robeson would be late the Young Progressives, the sponsoring organization, received a telegram from their New York office saying that he would arrive at Logan Airport at 4:10 and at Emerson D 40 minutes later. A call to New York by the Y.P.'s at 1 p.m. confirmed this--Robeson had had trouble getting an early reservation...
Overflow crowds at Emerson were told at 3:20 p.m. by Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the left-wing group, that Robeson would begin his talk on "The Liberation of the American Negro" at 4:45. The Progressives had been told that the plane would arrive at 4:10, but there was no such flight, only one scheduled to arrive...
...Robeson took that plane, but it was delayed 50 minutes in loading at New York. The singer and his entourage arrived at Logan at 5:30, contacted Beveridge, and were told that it was too late to make an appearance. The audience which packed the New Lecture Hall--revised site of the speech--started to file out about 5:30, after a wait made tense by expectation of an anti-Robeson demonstration. It was practically gone at 5:50 when Beveridge told the few left in the Hall that Robeson could not come...
...Robeson, at a major public appearance in September, 1949, attracted nation-wide notoriety. At two concerts in Peekskill, New York, the local population twice staged violent anti-Communist demonstrations...