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...delegation of 20 were Biologist Julian Huxley, Royal Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...
...Naha field, best air base on Okinawa, had been captured by the 4th Marines under husky, soft-voiced Colonel Alan Shapley, former Annapolis football star...
...States" stated Seymour Harris '20, associate professor of Economics, at a forum held last night at the Astronomical Observatory on the problems of the San Francisco Conference. Joining him in the discussion was Miss Emelie Everett, of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Massachusetts League of Woman Voters. Harlow Shapley of the Observatory served as moderator...
...until the '30s did Professor Ferguson make headlines. In 1938 he was on the Committee of Eight, with such professors as Felix Frankfurter, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Ralph Barton Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Harlow Shapley, which was appointed by President Conant to investigate terminating appointments at Harvard after the much-touted Walsh-Sweezy affair...
Naturally, Professor Shapley has run into some censor trouble. When he cabled instructions to Harvard's South African Observatory to "shoot nightly using whole battery" (meaning: watch Nova Puppis nightly with all telescopes), censors ordered him to mend his language. His most troublesome message was one announcing the discovery of Diamaca's Comet. Diamaca, a Rumanian amateur, cabled his news to Harvard by way of Denmark and Switzerland. A U.S. Navy officer promptly called on Professor Shapley. What, the Navy wanted to know, was the meaning of the last two words in the cable: "Popovici Stroemgren." After...