Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Budenz said that Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and suspended M.I.T. professor Dirk J. Struik are members of from 15 to 40 Communist-front organizations...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, who had violently opposed "Worlds in Collision," calling it "rubbish and nonsense," said that Velikovsky's new book concerned religion and philosophy rather than astronomy or science. "It has nothing to do with anything we're interested in," he added...
...Shapley had been accused of trying to stop publication of "Worlds in Collision" in 1950, a charge he denied vigorously at the time. Although the work immediately climbed to the top of non-fiction bestseller lists, the MacMillan Company suddenly discontinued distribution in the face of great controversy...
...Shapley were to be given one chance to show what he has done for the Observatory, he would point to the representatives of seventeen different nations that were on his staff at one time...
Throughout his term, Shapley has found it difficult to raise the necessary funds for his Department. Although he has managed to raise endowments from $1,000,000 to $2,250,000 together with gifts of about $50,000 annually, Shapley still tells one story about his past difficulties...