Melvin J. Lasky

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Lasky<img src="lasky.jpg" height=248 width=150 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Melvin J. Lasky">AKA Melvin Jonah LaskyBorn: <a href="/lists/532/000106214/" class=proflink>15-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/919/000105604/" class=proflink>1920</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/631/000069424/" class=proflink>New York City</a> Died: <a href="/lists/026/000106705/" class=proflink>19-May</a>-<a href="/lists/514/000106196/" class=proflink>2004</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/935/000069728/" class=proflink>Berlin, Germany</a> Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, <a href="/cemetery/809/000208185/" class="proflink">Waldfriedhof Heerstrasse, Berlin, Germany</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/180/000068973/" class=proflink>Journalist</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Editor of journal EncounterMilitary service: US Army (combat historian, 1944-46)During WWII Lasky was a combat historian in France and Germany, and an assistant to the U.S. Military Governor of Berlin in early postwar years. Subsequently, he founded and was Editor of the anti-Communist journal Encounter, which was in April 1966 shown by The New York Times (Lasky claimed this was without his knowledge) to be secretly financed by the CIA, via the front organization Congress for Cultural Freedom. Despite questions over source of funding, it does not appear that Lasky was under the influence of those organizations. Father: Samuel Lasky Mother: Esther Kantrowitz Wife: Brigitte Newiger (m. 13-Dec-1947, div, 1974, one son, one daughter) Son: Oliver Lasky Daughter: Vivienne Freeman-Lasky Girlfriend: Helga Hegewisch (German novelist)     University: <a href="/edu/691/000068487/">BSS, City College of New York</a>     University: <a href="/edu/512/000068308/">MA History, University of Michigan</a>     <a href="/media/941/000047800/">Encounter</a> Editor (1958-90)     <a href="/org/982/000097691/">Committee for the Free World</a> Appears in articles: The New York Times, 22-May-2004, DETAILS: Melvin J. Lasky, Cultural Cold Warrior, Dies at 84, BYLINE: Richard Bernstein Author of books: The Hungarian Revolution (<tt>1957</tt>, nonfiction) Africa for Beginners (<tt>1962</tt>, nonfiction) Utopia and Revolution (<tt>1976</tt>, nonfiction) On the Barricades, and Off (<tt>1989</tt>, memoir) Voices in a Revolution (<tt>1991</tt>, nonfiction) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=47799"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=47799">Melvin J. 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Melvin J. Lasky