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...last day, Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley announced the two big winners: Barbara Wolff, 17, of New York, and 15-year-old Andrew Kende of Evanston, Ill. As soon as she heard the news, Barbara, flushed and fluttery, rushed to a phone to tell her father. A quiet girl with shoulder-long hair, she spends her time at home studying the nonhereditary mutations of the fruit fly. Her father, a school principal in New York City, had already heard the news on the radio. Cried he into the phone: "Half the neighborhood's drunk already...
...Harlow Shapley, Director of the University observatory, yesterday blasted the House Un-American Activities Committee, claiming that it unwarranted attacks on scientists have "probably set back the national security of America by months or even years...
Third party delegates will have to look beyond the College Observatory for a Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory, yesterday turned down and offer by the State Progressive Citizens of America that he run for governor on the Wallace ticket...
...This generous offer is appreciated," Professor Shapley said, "but of course I could not consider anything of the sort." The leading astronomer, who is honorary chairman of the Massachusetts PCA, added that such a candidacy would "obstruct whatever effectiveness I may have in promoting civil liberties and progressive legislation...
Sunday's demonstration arose during a report on the activities of the Arts and Sciences section of the PCA, of which Professor Shapley is chairman. The astronomer had spoken at an earlier session of the convention...