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Q:

The Bintele Brief was in the Forward?

Foner:

In the Forward.

Q:

And your father read the Forward?

Foner:

My father read the Forward. I remember him reading the morning Journal, not the Tag, which was more conservative, but he read the Forward, I remember, on weekends because they had the roto-gravure section, I remember. We all looked at that because when my brothers graduated from high school and I carried it around in my wallet for many, many years, their pictures were in there.

Q:

From graduation. But never the?

Foner:

No. Not during this period. Later on my father became very political in his interests, later on, not in reacting to what we were doing, but not during this period. My father went through various periods of being completely agnostic to very religious, that kind of thing. My father was also a very cynical person. “Ah, politicians. Ah, you know.”

Q:

Okay. You went to high school. It's confusing to me.

Foner:

I went to high school. I graduated from high school at the age of sixteen.

Q:

Graduated high school at sixteen?

Foner:

Yes.

Q:

So you went to high school when you were twelve.

Foner:

Maybe I was between sixteen, seventeen. I graduated in June of 1932.

Q:

So you were almost seventeen. You were seventeen.

Foner:

Right.

Q:

So you went when you were almost thirteen.

Foner:

Right. I went to junior high one year and then I went to high school.

Q:

All the things that we've been talking about are sort of merged a little bit.

Foner:

Yes, it's hard. They slip around.





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