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This is not the first time that Fairbank has been in the center of controversy. His name has cropped up several times in testimony at Washington investigational hearings, and he was for a long time denied a visa to leave the country...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy this week picked out John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, for special mention as one of the many authors of "pro-communist" books in the State Department's overseas libraries...
...annual report of the Senate Permanent subcommittee on Investigations, released on Monday, McCarthy named Fairbank, along with novelist Howard Fast and mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, as typical authors of "well over 30,000 books written by known Communists or Communist sympathizers, or containing obvious pro-Soviet or Communist propaganda...
...Fairbank, when contacted by the CRIMSON last night, said he had not yet seen McCarthy's report, and declined to make any comment...
June: The Reunion Class of 1929 will hear classmates John Fox '29 and John K. Fairbank '29 debate in New Lecture Hall, and decide not to withhold the class gift after all. President Pusey will get through the degree-awarding exercises without missing a Dean. The dues list will come down from the Dunster House bulletin board. Tom Lehrer adds a 13 ditty to his list of publicly singable songs; and numbers 106 to 186 to his "small party" selections...