Playboy Interview: Norman Thomas

Playboy Interview: Norman ThomasFor more than half a century, Norman Thomas has devoted his considerable energies to protest--in word and deed. Almost totally blind, his tall frame slightly stooped, he is still the ubiquitous dissenter--writing, chairing a broad range of protest groups, addressing civil rights rallies and peace demonstrations. "The years have given a cavernous austerity to his patrician face," A. H. Raskin wrote recently in The New York Times, "but the wrinkles of...