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Philbrick, a Boston advertising man, was a key witness at the trial of the 11 top communists in 1949. His appearance in court was in effect the first disclosure by the federal government that it had undercover agents in the Communist Party. He is also the accuser of Dirk Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor...
...Dirk Jan Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor of Mathematics, denied yesterday charges made in a bill of particulars filed by the District Attorney Tuesday that he conspired to overthrow the governments of the United States and Massachusetts by force and violence...
...Dirk Jan Struik, professor of Mathematics at M.I.T., made his first visit to the University since his indictment in September for conspiring to overthrow the government. Invited by a Kirkland House resident who was "interested in meeting Struik," he conferred with a small group of about six for several hours...
Except for a scattering of top-level mathematicians across the nation, and the students in his classes at M.I.T., few Americans had ever heard of Dirk J. Struik when his name first appeared in the news two years ago. He was a mousy-looking mathematician who had come to the U.S. from Holland in 1926, the author of half a dozen learned tomes, and a Marxist lecturer of note in Mexico, The Netherlands and the U.S.S.R. But by last week M.I.T.'s Professor Dirk Struik (pronounced strouk), was considerably better known in his adopted land. He was the center...
...first attempt at the University to form a committee to aid M.I.T. Professor Dirk Struik failed last night. Acting Secretary Stewart G. Bryant 2G had called a meeting of the 25 students who had previously signed a Dean's Office petition for the committee...