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...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 Margenau later nervously checked with the FBI every time...
...WORLD OF ESP (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Basil Rathbone narrates a study of extrasensory perception, using films of actual ESP experiences and lab experiments to explore telepathy, clairvoyance and the power of mind over matter. Among those interviewed are Menninger's Gardner Murphy and Yale's Henry Margenau...
...Yale philosophy department has all sorts-logical positivists and metaphysicians (e.g., Carl Hempel and Paul Weiss), Agnostic F.S.C. Northrop, Physicist Henry Margenau, Idealist Theodore Greene. Last week, Yale added the final diversity-a Thomist, and the only Jesuit professor at any big non-Catholic university...
...Professor Margenau was cleared as a trustworthy citizen of the US only four years ago. So now he calls the New Haven FBI office every time he has doubts about a group which has asked him to speak...
Professor Margenau did not know...