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Anyone who followed the Senate appointment of retiring President conant in the Boston Post was treated to one of the greatest examples of hind-end reporting in recent years. Publisher John Fox, never a friend of the University or Conant, hustled a "special correspondent," John G. Kelso, to Washington. This is the Post interpretation...
...January 7, when most newspapers were discussing Conant's probable activities in Germany, the Post headlines screamed FOES OF CONANT PROMISE BATTLE. "It is likely the furor kicked up by the Charles E. Wilson affair is nothing to that generated by the proposed Conant appointment," the story stated. Relying on a "source" close to Senator McCarthy, the front-page story said the Senator felt the appointment might cost the Republicans the 1954 Congressional elections, and "was of the opinion Conant's name would never reach the Senate floor...
...certain that once a single lawmaker raises his voice in the halls of Congress over the Conant appointment, others will join promptly to create a veritable flood of criticism...
President conant was introduced to the committee by Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) who spat back at the criticisms of the day before, "I would rather have a man who had done something and who has built up a record than to have a man who has no record of any kind and who, for that reason will have no opposition or no man in factor of him." . . . Now, of course, he is a controversial figure. These three presidents of Harvard during my lifetime--Charles W. Eliot, A. Lawrence Lowell and James B. Conant--have all been controversial figures...
Saltonstall carried the day, not only in the committee with unanimously approved Conant's appointment but two days later in the Senate which officialy confirmed...