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Professor Harlow Shapley last night referred to an accusation that he is a prominent Communist-front sympathizer as "just another smear" and added that "these charges don't mean much any more...
...Shapley, Paine Professor of Practiced Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, denied his membership in all the Communist organizations named by Huber, but refused to comment further on the accusation...
Last spring he was one of a panel of seven Harvard professors of liberal politics who condemned the participation of Harlaw Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, at the allegedly Communist-sponsored World Peace Conference in New York...
Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long gazed upward with Red stars in his eyes,* took a searching look about him at the state of science in a world of ideological struggle and bounced off the party line...
Scientist Shapley sought to rise above lesser loyalties. "Whether it is the anti-evolution statutes in some of the American states, or Nazi attacks on the 'Jewish' relativity theory, or the Kremlin's telling the astronomers what cosmogony is good for them and what is bad, the demoralization of the spirit is dangerous." Although he believes that nine-tenths of the Russian scientists are "aware of the social mistake," they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady...