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Apparently a few Americans still entertained some illusions. The U.S. sponsoring committee was studded with the well-intentioned, the gullible, the confused, and salted with Communists. The committee was headed by Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long had red stars in his eyes. Besides such unsurprising names as Henry A. Wallace and Charles Chaplin, the roster included Physicist Albert Einstein, Novelist Thomas Mann. What was really surprising at this late date was that such supposedly well-informed people as Vassar President Sarah Gibson Blanding and Columbia Philosopher Irwin Edman had agreed to sponsor the Communists' show and ducked...
Five Harvard professors lined up yesterday behind the Americans for Intellectual Freedom, which has denounced the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, sponsored by Harlow Shapley, as a "Communist front operation." One of them, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 37, will speak this afternoon at the AIF's counter-rally in New York City's Freedom House...
Heading the list of Harvard educators is President Conant, who will give a course on the Science of General Education. Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, will make one of his rare appearances in Astronomy S142, Introduction to Cosmogony...
...clerk of the Suffolk superior civil court thinks Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, should resign from the National Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions...
...Harlow Shapley yesterday defended the forthcoming intellectuals' peace rally in New York against allegations of Communist-front activity with the assertion that it is independent of any political group or other conferences already held or contemplated...