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WILLIAM S. FAIRFIELD, managing editor of The Crimson in 1948, wrote an article on June 4, 1949, which reported that undercover FBI agents "wander in and out of (Yale) Provost Edgar S. Furniss's office every day" to inform on young faculty up for tenure. The physics department received the most extensive surveillance. Fairfield reported. The FBI approached Henry Margenau, a professor in the Physics Department and now Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus at Yale, to reproach him for speaking before the New Haven Youth Movement, a group with supposedly leftist leanings, Fairfield claimed. He noted that...
...Cohen, a post-doctoral student in Yale's philosophy department, was denied an instructorship when the university's Prudential Committee overrode the recommendation of the philosophy department and the unanimous vote of the faculty. The committee reversed its decision when information on Cohen's alleged Communist activities--which Furniss said came from the FBI--proved grossly inaccurate...
...fellow co-captain Steve Furniss nominated me to carry the flag and I was there in the room when he stood up to give my qualifications," Hall said recently from his home in Indiana, "I was very embarrassed, but very proud when I realized how much my teamates though...
...Matthes, he retreated to a training room, turned off all the lights and mentally raced the 200-meter freestyle. Less than an hour later he was racing it in reality. This time he left the starting block punctually, but at the finish was .2 sec. off U.S.C. Teammate Bruce Furniss's world-record performance of 1:50.3. And Naber, too, had broken the record...
...free: Jim Montgomery of Indiana could defeat defending champ Steve Furniss of USC. Yntema probably couldn't score here; so he may not enter, figuring he has a better chance in the 200 IM and the two butterfly events...