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...bored with those things and probably won't even read the book," Harlow D. Shapley, professor of Astronomy, said last night about pro-Communist charges made against him in a book written recently by two Yale graduates...
...book, "McCarthy and His Enemies," L. Brent Bozell and Williams F. Buckley, Jr. reiterate charges that Shapley was a member of numerous Communist front organizations while he was unofficially employed by the State Department as a member of a United Nations missions...
...There is nothing to be gained by denying these charges," Shapley said. "They are the same old accusations repeated over and over again...
...place, nor government nor business contract. He has written books on Thucydides. the rise of cities, on the Jacobins, Joyce, and juvenile delinquents. He has composed Pulitzer Prizewinning poems (The Conquistador by Archibald Mac-Leish) and music (Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through...
...subcommittee officially released the name of only one witness, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. It is known, however, that Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, also testified. Mrs. Markham, whose contract expires in June, has twice invoked the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution when testifying before the Jenner Committee of the United States Senate...