Word: willises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Matthew Rhem of the Signal Corps sent a greeting from Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, commander of the First Army, to the armed forces throughout the world. The message circled the globe in one-eighth of a second and when it returned to Governors Island it activated a miniature atomic...
F.B.I. agent Galen N. Willis vigorously denied yesterday that the Burean would ever specifically ask for a man's college record. This statement was an abrupt refutation of Associate Dean Watson's claim last Wednesday that the F.B.I. had asked for such-information.
"We don't care what an undergraduate thinks," Willis said. He emphasized that the F.B.I. is not a police bureau to suppress thought. If colleges want to give up information about students, he added, it's their privilege. He also commented that Yale has "been cooperative" with the Bureau.
Willis claimed further that the F.B.I. can get all the information it needs by looking at college yearbooks, which normally list all of an undergraduate's clubs. Watson, however, said that most students do not put down the names of clubs which might be considered leftist or subversive.
CARROLL WILLIS Wichita, Kans.