Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer

Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace

Norman Mailer was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.^[1]

Dissent Magazine

Dissent magazine was founded in 1954. Early personnel included^[2];

Editorial Board:

Travers Clement, Lewis Coser, Irving Howe, Harold Orlans, Stanley Plartrik, Meyer Schapiro

1954 Contributing Editors:

Erich Fromm, Bert Hoselitz, Norman Mailer, Frank Marquart, A. J. Muste, George Woodcock

GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee

Circa 1969, Norman Mailer, writer, New York , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .^[3]

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