Okay, I just did a search and couldn’t find anything on FR but here’s a search result, will look shortly and see if I come up with anything:
Thanks for the links.
I do recall reading earlier J. Drew’s contemporaneous impressions. My take-away was not so much that O was a Marxist - much of his support is based on that and he cannot dodge it even if he wanted. Neither was that he seemed to others to be a homosexual...that is easily dodged with the argument, “he is after all married with two children” (as if that is credible proof to the contrary).
What could be important in all of it, is continuing to advance the notion his name was O and not that of a foreign student.
Re: his status at Columbia, it would be good to determine the date O first used the name as a matter of record. If we do not have the Occidental or Columbia records or driving license records, etc. it is, notwithstanding the comments of others who knew him earlier, yet an open point.
For example, when folks refer to Cassius Clay’s early boxing record they invariably refer to him as Mohammed Ali and not C. Clay.