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...Communist Party ("No nobler, no finer product of man's existence") and the mid-century U.S. ("Only one virtue remains-betrayal-and the only measure of human worth is the measure of a pimp"). Beyond these words his deeds included a three months jail sentence in 1950 for contempt of Congress, and an emotional message to the leaders of Red China who were battling U.S. troops during the Korean war: "My heart is with you in the mighty struggle...
...Boston, one of the most publicized cases that grew out of Joe McCarthy's career as wild-swinging slayer of subversive dragons came to an end. Because of insufficient evidence, the Government announced that it was dropping the prosecution of Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry, charged with contempt for refusing to answer the Senator's questions. ¶Gift of the week: from John D. Rockefeller Jr., $1,000,000 to Dartmouth College for Dartmouth's new social and creative arts center (TIME, Feb. 20). ¶Resignation of the week: Samuel Brownell, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it comes...
...government decided yesterday not to continue its prosecution of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, who was indicted last year for contempt of Congress. Furry had refused to disclose the names of any Communists he had known...
Furry follows Leon J. Kamin '48, former research assistant in Social Relations, as the second Harvard man to be freed from contempt of Congress charges. Kamin was acquitted by Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 in January...