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Surrounded by perhaps the most captive audience he ever mystified, Harlow Shapley slowly explained to the pensive Congressmen that even small rocks contain tremendous explosive energy. Then Shapley suddenly announced that he had actual evidence, and quickly pushed a black and white stone onto the table bordered by his listeners. Every Congressman bolted backward as the guards unbolstered their revolvers. Several minutes passed before the flustered Congressmen heard the advice of a beamed Shapley for wording atomic energy legislation...
Although the demand for Shapley's knowledge has led him into a number of unusual situation's the former director of the Harvard observatory likes to disclaim most of the legends about him. "It's as Holmes wrote," he muses, "half he lies they tell about me aren't true." As Shapley talks, his frequent smile and darting eyes reflect his good nature. Students recall his rapid speech and movements, unslowed by the passing of 69 years. Shapley could stop his work now with full assurance that he would be remembered as one of the leading astronomers of this...
...hundred and thirty-one non-permanent teaching officers asked that eight professors--and not the Administration--study the entire tenure problem and specifically make recommendations about Walsh and Sweezy. The eight men, including Professors Morison, Shapley, Schlesinger, and Felix Frankfurtor, wrote to Conant asking that he appoint a special committee as the instructors had requested and adding that if he would not, the eight would not, the eight would investigate anyway...
...discussion group meets fortnightly, debating almost anything. Clyde Kluckhohn, for example spoke to the group about the female Kinsey report, and Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Economist Seymour Harris have also been recent guests. Two tutors recently formed a poetry group which plans to invite local poets to the House for informal meetings. There is a play-reading group, an art committee, which sponsors eight exhibits a year, and a house newspaper, the Oak Leaf, published occasionally...
Only four pages of the book are devoted to Shapley, and the authors also examine charges against John Stewart Service, Owen Lattimore, and others in an attempt "to throw down a bold challenge to the writers, teachers, and politicians who regard McCarthyism and Communism as twin evils and who profess to see in the former the more imminent danger to our freedom...