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18 Facts About Sender Garlin

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Sender Garlin was an American journalist, pamphleteer, and writer.

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Sender Garlin was born in Bialystok, Poland, on April 4,1902.

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Sender Garlin's family left the country in 1906 to escape pogroms.

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Sender Garlin worked on the staff at the Daily Worker newspaper for 17 years and was associate editor of New World Review.

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Sender Garlin was a founding editor of Partisan Review magazine and a charter member of the American Newspaper Guild.

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Sender Garlin reported on the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934.

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Sender Garlin was a long-time literary apparatchik of the American Communist Party.

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Sender Garlin ended his days at a great age only quite recently as an elder statements of progressive community in Boulder, Colorado.

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Sender Garlin had a long association with The Daily Worker, ro which he was for a time their man in Moscow.

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Sender Garlin worked for the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, managed the New York Heart Association's public affairs, and was editor of the Legal Brief of Physicians.

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Sender Garlin founded the Social Issues Forum on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Sender Garlin was active in political groups, including the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Left Hand Books, and the Rocky Mountain Peace Center.

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Sender Garlin died at his home on December 6,1999, at age 97.

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Sender Garlin was survived by wife Martha Millet Garlin, daughter Emily, son Alexander, granddaughter Annelise, son Victor, and granddaughters Amy and Rachel.

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Sender Garlin had slept overnight on the bare floor of a friend's room in one of the residence halls.

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Sender Garlin talked incessantly in a voice like a teletype machine; and what he talked about was the Soviet Union and Communism.

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Sender Garlin said that, in fact, there was no Communist Party.

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Sender Garlin was not sure that he knew how to contact it or that he knew anyone in it.