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Charges against Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, moved from a national to a local level yesterday when a state representative and the clerk of the Suffolk superior civil court challenged Shapley's right to teach at Harvard because of his alleged Communist associations...
McCarthy made similar accusations about Shapley's "Communist connections" on February 11. Shapley declared at that time that McCarthy's charges were "a complete absurdity and a slanderous lie. It is irresponsible slander of a type that brings disgrace to the Senate of which he is a member...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, was named as pro-Communist by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) yesterday at a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating Communist influence in the State Department. McCarthy said Shapley has been connected with at least 36 Communist-front organizations...
...Shapley last night called McCarthy's charges "grossly untrue" and said he was "frankly bored" with such "non-sense...
McCarthy noted that the professor once represented Secretary of State Dean Acheson on the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Shapley on February 12 declared that he had, "never held a State Department position...