Marion Stern

Mrs Marion Stern
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Born	1902
Died	1990
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left not on printed lists elected_AI 1932.06.21

Notes

House Notes

1932.05.24 nominated

Mrs Alfred Stern

Notes From Elsewhere

Alfred Stern [later a spy] was born into a wealthy family on 29th November, 1897, in Fargo, North Dakota. His father was a successful banker. Stern was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. After leaving university he went into the banking ...
In 1921 Stern married Marion Rosenwald, daughter of one of the richest men in America, Julius Rosenwald. They had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce.
Alfred Stern married Martha Dodd on 16th June, 1938.

The Rosenwalds’ fourth child, Marion, made two interesting marriages—both to men who were visibly leftist. The first union, to Alfred Stern, ended after 16 years. ... Her second husband was the brilliant and colorful Italian anti-Fascist Dr. Max Ascoli, who had been a professor of Law at the University of Genoa. After being jailed briefly by Benito Mussolini’s regime, Ascoli immigrated to the United States in 1931 and settled in New York. While teaching at the New School for Social Research he met Marion, a student there. Max “enthralled her with both mind and personality,” according to an acquaintance, and they married in 1940. In 1949, Marion funded Ascoli’s New York-based liberal magazine, The Reporter, one of the most influential American publications of the ’50s and ’60s.