Word: cyc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philbrick's book, "I Led Three Lives," tells of the early organization of the CYC. Philbrick describes the trouble in forming an organization, and acknowledges the help of Arthur and Sidney Solomon, and Stanley Beecher...
Philbrick also told how the CYC sent out letters to Cambridge organizations and people, announcing the first meeting. At the first meeting in December, Philbrick says, "we had an impressive list of loyal sponsors, including Professor Kirtley Mather of Harvard...
...CYC, Mather said, was organized originally by Philbrick as a young people's organization, but then Philbrick discovered that some of the people that he had appointed to executive positions were Communists...
Mather added that he didn't know if there were any Communists in the CYC. "But if he (Philbrick) said there were, why he's probably correct...