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In 1924 Haldane met Charlotte Burghes, a newswoman and novelist. They
soon became attached to each other. However, Burghes was already married
and had a son. In order to obtain a divorce for her, which required
cause, they arranged to be discovered committing adultery (in a hotel).
However, they decided to change hotels midstream, and went so far as to
ask the private detec-tive, who had been hired to catch them in the act
(and whose identity they had detected) to carry one of their suitcases
to their new hotel, lest he lose sight of them. It went off "without a
hitch" and the next day the detective, according to Haldane, "appeared
in our bedroom with the morning papers." The hoped-for exposure led to
Haldane's formal dismissal as a reader at Cambridge by a body called the
Sex Viri (referring to the six men that composed the body), a name that
encouraged much jocularity among those observing the scandal. Haldane
immediately took his case to the National Union of Scientific Workers,
and with their help managed to have the decision immediately overturned.
The consequence was that "Haldane's name was now firmly placed in the
vanguard of sexual emancipation." The two married in 1926.
- [marxmail] Why can't all academics learn to write like John ... Louis Proyect
