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Answers given by Associate Professor of Physics Wendell H. Furry before the House Un-American Activities Committee Wednesday left the impression with the committee that there is a Communist cell presently in operation at Harvard, a ranking member told the CRIMSON yesterday...
Representative Bernard W. Kearney of New York, second ranking Republican on the committee, yesterday said the group felt "the only way Harvard's name can be cleared is for Furry to come down again and testify that there is no cell there now." He denied an earlier report that the committee would demand Furry come to Washington...
Furry, who has been named by three earlier witness before the House Committee as a member of a Harvard "Red cell" in the 1930's, did not say whether he had belonged to the Communist Party in the past...
...former Harvard instructor, Daniel J. Boorstin, also testified before the Veldo Committee yesterday. Boorstin reiterated testimony by Professor Robert G. Davis of Smith as to the existence of a Communist cell at Harvard in the thirties. He, as did Davis, testified that Furry had been a member of that group...
Aside from Furry and Boorstin, Davis named eight other former teachers as cell members. They are Jack B. Rackliffe '34, John H. Reynolds '29, Richard B. Schlatter, former instructor in History, Richard M. Goodwin '34, instructor in Physics and later assistant professor of Economics, George Mayberry, Israel Halperin, Ruby Sherr, and Herbert E. Robbins...