Article: Beichman's Ideas Trump Communism; An ardent America supporter, Arnold Beichman battled communist ideas as an editor of a left-wing newspaper and still is working as a lecturer and prolific author.(PICTURE PROFILE)

Arnold Beichman is 90 years old, but you'd hardly know it, and he will turn 91 in May. During his nine decades he's met all-time baseball greats Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, and talked with presidents such as Harry S Truman and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Beichman speaks eloquently about life in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s, where he was a 1934 graduate of Columbia University and editor of its student newspaper. Later, as city editor for Marshall Fields' now defunct (but once highly regarded) daily, PM, he came into contact with many of the town's movers and shakers.

But Beichman's experience stretches far beyond the environs of Manhattan. While ...

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