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...bill is not aimed at any particular Person," MeCarthy started, "but it passed, 1 doubt that Professor Shapley would be fit to teach." Last year, McCarthy accused Harlow shapley, director of the College Observatory, of being unfit to teach because of alleged Communist affiliations shortly after Senator Joseph A, McCarthy (R-Wiscongin) asserted that Shapley "maintained Communist connections...
Clark, a retired New York lawyer, outlined in 1949 the University's policy of unlimited academic freedom in a famous exchange of letters with Frank B. Ober, a Law School graduate. Olter had questioned the left-wing activities of Harlow Shapley '10, director of the Observatory, and John Clardt, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition...
...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