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...sixth and last story in Griffins current crusade appeared in the Tribune Saturday. It concerned the refusal of Franklin B. Ober, a 1913 graduate of the Law School, to contribute last Spring to a fund for Law School buildings because "Harvard teachers, particularly Harlow Shapley and John Ciardi, were giving 'aid and Comfort' to Communism...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, was indirectly defended by Secretary of State Dean Acheson yesterday against charges made by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) February...
Acheson said there was no truth in any of the charges about Communist influence in the State Department leveled in McCarthy's Rene, Nevada, speech. McCarthy had mentioned Shapley as a "person with Communist connections," and Shapley that same day called McCarthy's statement a "slanderous...
Observatory Director Harlow Shapley last week took formal possession of the new telescope from Charles W. Elmer, co founder of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation which built the instrument...
Huber placed Shapley's name with those of Paul Robeson, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, and other "well-known figures...