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...more heated debates took place between State Representative William F. Keenan and Daniel Boone Schirmer '37, legislative agent for the Communist party...
Keenan questioned Schirmer about his past affairs with the party. He asked: "Did you belong to any organization at Harvard that was communist?" Schirmer replied: "I do not have to and will not answer that question...
...Schirmer also was asked if he first learned about Communism at the College. He emphatically replied...
...with the control of leftist sympathies at Harvard. This particularly concerned the legislature at the time of the Sullivan Bill hearing because Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was simultaneously acting as chairman of the allegedly Russian inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace and Daniel Boone Schirmer, a confessed Communist testifying against the bill, turned out to be a Harvard graduate...
Schuman, who still finds time to compose despite his duties as president of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and director of publications for music publishers G. Schirmer, Inc., did not quite want to say his latest work was his best: "I have no stepchildren; if I slighted one work, it would feel hurt." But he had tried to compose a work "on the highest musical plane, exploiting the virtuosity of the violin and not just showing it off." The concerto had, he said, "a good deal of melody-and melody is the bread and butter of music...