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Truman Capote — Part 1
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NWHAT WAS THIS ORGANIZATION THAT GLUCK appealed to? who
created it? What killed it?
. "Pair Play was born at the beginning of the 1¢60s.
After a decade of debilitation, a new left wing was starting
to emerge in America. It had as an adversary &@ militant
right. But it also had going with it a new questioning
spirit, a spirit that was responsible for a new wave of
social criticism in the country.
"Pair Play was born on a cold January night in
1960 when three men met in an inccnspicuous Cuban restaurant
on Manhattan's West Side. They were:
"Alan Sagner, a Livingston, N.J., builder who had
read an article in The Nation several days before which
reinforced Sagner's belief that much of the U. S, press was
deliberately. vilifying Castro. He contacted the man who
wrote the pro-Castro article.
"Robert Taber, the author of the article, was 4
CPS reporter who became a staunch Castro supporter while
covering the Cuban revolution in the lete 'SOs. Taber had
been convicted of armed robbery, kidnaping and auto larceny
in 1939 and spent three years in an Ohio Prison before being
Ly t
"pr, Charles A. Santos\Buch, then a Cuban sup- one
perter of Castro, was & pathologist at New York Hospital. “i
He was asked to come to the meeting by Taber, who had first
met him while covering the Cuban revolution. Dr. Santes-Buch
was head of the Civic Resistance Movement, a wing of Castro's
26 of July movement.
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