OPINION: The Good Investigator

Like his fellow educators, Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, 49, president of the City College of New York, has had to contend with wild and sweeping accusations from Congressmen and others that U.S. school and college faculties are riddled with Communists. But last week, speaking to the Atlantic City assembly of the United Church Women he cautioned his colleagues not to dismiss every accusation as wild, sweeping and groundless. This, he said, is to use the same "smear" tactics they condemn in their enemies.

Gallagher's example of an honest investigator is Indiana's Senator William E. Jenner, head of the Senate's Subcommittee...

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