INVESTIGATIONS: McCarthy v. Harvard

In a twelfth-floor room of the Federal Building in Boston, stands a large map of the U.S., and above it runs the inscription : "Justice is the guarantee of liberty." At the bottom are the names of distinguished Massachusetts jurists—Cushing, Story, Curtis, Gray, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, Frankfurter.In front of the map one day last week sat a onetime Wisconsin circuit judge, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, busy in active refutation of rumors that he was going to quit the Communist chase and devote himself to less flamboyant pursuits. McCarthy was in full cry after an old quarry: Associate Physics Professor...