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...known, however, that some faculty members were much more pleased with the resolution of the case of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, than with the three others--Leon J. Kamin, research assistant in the Laboratory of Social Relations, Helene Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, and Daniel Fine, senior resident in Medicine...
...alleged contempt occurred when Furry and Kamin dropped their Fifth Amendment shields on questions about themselves, but refused to talk about others in their appearance before the McCarthy Committee in January...
While considered one of the "brightest young men" in the department, Kamin would not have been hired here since Social Relations prefers to get its instructors and assistant professors from outside. Since he got his Ph.D. in March he would not have been able to continue as a teaching fellow or research assistant and thus would have been compelled to look for work elsewhere. After some difficulty he has secured a position at another university...
...Kamin was told by a member of the administration that his use of the Fifth Amendment would make any chance of his reappointment here unlikely. He has secured a job at another university for next year...
...behest of Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. Senate issued contempt citations against Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry and Psychologist Leon Kamin. Reason for the citations: though both men had finally discarded the use of the Fifth Amendment, and though both had freely admitted that they had once been members of the Communist Party, neither would play informer against others who might have been members too. ¶ Appointment of the week: Clark George Kuebler, 46, president of Ripon College, Wis., to succeed J. Harold Williams as second provost of the University of California's Santa Barbara College. A former...