Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copy of the Registration number of your publication came into my hands. It contains the following statement by Professor Shapley: "The claim that Dr. Velikovsky's book is being suppressed is nothing but a publicity promotion stunt. Like having a book banned in Boston, it improves the sales. Several attempts have been made to link such a move to stop the book's publication to some organization or to the Harvard Observatory. This idea is absolutely false...
...wonder how this statement can square with the fact that Professor Shapley was the first to write to Macmillan Company asking them not to proceed with the publication of the book. He wrote on January 18 and January 25, long before the book was published in full these two very vehement letters, copies of which are in my possession, as well as his very unusual correspondence with Ted O. Thackrey, of the "Daily Compass," in which Thackrey accuses him of voting criminally. How, further, can his statement that nobody of the Harvard Observatory made any effort to harm or impress...
These three facts must be denied and proved to be fiction before the statements of Professor Shapely in the Harvard CRIMSON, in which he denies having caused me any moral or material harm, and also previously in "Newsweek of July 3 (". . . Dr. Shapley last week denied heatedly that he conducted 'any campaigns against the book.' . . . 'I didn't make any threats and I don't know anyone who did.'") can be regarded as truthful statements. Immanuel Velikovsky
Astronomer Harlow Shapley, director of famed Harvard Observatory, last week looked back instead of up. Shapley's choice of the top ten astronomical developments of the past year included...
...discovery by Shapley and his Harvard colleagues of the periodic flare-up of Proxima Centauri, the star nearest the earth (25 trillion miles). These explosive flashes double the intensity of the star, which is normally 10,000 times brighter than...