Letter from David Shoemaker to Linus Pauling. April 23, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: “Statement of Account.” Total of $14,950.86. [Check from LP to Mineral Society of America March 7, 1963, Check from LP to Linda Hopkins March 7, 1963, Check from AHP to Santa Anita Pool Service March 7, 1963, Check from LP to Phil Cullom March 7, 1963, Check from AHP to Southern California Refuse March 7, 1963, Check from LP to The Geochemical Society March 8, 1963, Check from LP to Dr. G. Albrecht March 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Weekly Guardian Associates March 8, 1963, Check from LP to American Society of Naturalists March 8, 1963, Check from AHP to George Miller March 14, 1963, Check from AHP to Jiro Sugita March 31, 1963, Check from AHP to Mona Smith March 31, 1963, Check from LP to Linda Hopkins April 1, 1963, Check from AHP to Anna Leskela April 2, 1963, Check from LP to Ralph Haskin April 3, 1963, Check from AHP to L. Sharon April 3, 1963, Check from LP to Linda Hopkins April 3, 1963, Check from LP to C.I.T. Bookstore April 3, 1963, Check from LP to California Institute of Technology April 3, 1963, Check from AHP to Operation Freedom April 3, 1963, Check from LP to Lloyd Wilkie April 3, 1963, Check from AHP to Jean Marcus April 3, 1963, Check from AHP to Roess Market April 5, 1963, Check from AHP to Petite Beauty Salon April 5, 1963, Check from AHP to The White House April 6, 1963, Check from LP to the Internal Revenue Service April 7, 1963, Check from AHP to McBride Animal Hospital April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to SOCO Western April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Santa Anita Pool Service April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Sears Service April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Pacific Telephone April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Donald R. Laing, M.D. April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Driftwood Dairy April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Athenaeum April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Mira Loma Mutual Water Co. April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Pasadena Star News April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Southern Conference Educational Fund April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Southern California Refuse April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Northern California Association to Preserve Bodega Head and Harbor April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to American Humanist Association April 8, 1963, Check from AHP to Southern California Gas Company April 8, 1963, Check from LP to the Department of Motor Vehicles April 8, 1963, Receipt from First Western Bank to LP April 10, 1963, Check from AHP to Henry and Hodges April 10, 1963, Check from LP to Justice Court, Morro Bay April 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to St. Luke’s Hospital RE: $13.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from LP to "U.N.," $1.50, for "books." [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.077, Folder 77.1]
• Check from LP to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service RE: $290.11.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from LP to the United Nations RE: $1.50.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Itinerary [handwritten]: Beverly Hilton Hotel; SANE luncheon honoring Dr. Spock [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.3] 
• Letter from David P. Shoemaker, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology to LP. [Letter from LP to Shoemaker April 17, 1963]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Individual Correspondence (Shaw-Shriver): Box #363 Folder #363.3]

  MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

  CAMBRIDGE 39, MASSACHUSETTS

  April 23, 1963

  Professor Linus Pauling

  Gates and Crellin Laboratory

  California Institute of Technology

  Pasadena 4, California

  Dear Linus:

  The name of L. Ron Hubbard means nothing to me except "Dianetics" and pseudoscience. The name of John Arwine means nothing at all to me.

  To the best of my knowledge I never met either of them. I certainly do not recall any meeting associated with them, such as Hubbard describes. As far as I can remember Dick Noyes or I presided over all meetings of the Pasadena chapter of the FAS.

  I cannot rigorously exclude the possibility that either or both of them participated in one of our meetings. I could easily have forgotten the names. It is even possible that in the chaos of the time such a meeting as Hubbard describes actually took place independently of our association, without our being aware of it. In this case, Hubbard probably has exaggerated its importance and impact.

  I remember that the "Association of Pasadena Scientists" (which later joined FAS) had an organization meeting (about which I remember essentially nothing), and had regular public meetings for a while, in Gates Lecture Room. At one or two of them we had movies of bomb shots. At others, talks by people like Robert Oppenheimer. We had steering committee meetings at frequent intervals, had a speakers program, etc. Dick Noyes was Chairman, I was a moderator or something. We started activities in the late fall of 1945 and petered out in the summer of 1946.

  When I left Cal Tech I believe James Bonner inherited the files. You might ask him for his memories, if you haven't already done so. (The Newsletters in the files might yield a clue.) You might also ask Dick Noyes.

  The M.I. T. Registrar has no record of either Hubbard or Arwine having been registered as a student here.

  I am sorry I can't be more helpful. But you have got me curious. I'd like to know if you turn up anything interesting. It sounds to me as if Hubbard is merely puffing.

  Sincerely yours,

  David P. Shoemaker

  DPS:fd

• Letter from Elmer E. Taylor to LP RE: Thanks LP for all of his work.  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963) #411.8]
• Letter from George H. Wahl, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University, Jr. To LP RE: Informs that since his thesis advisor is Dr. K. Mislow, he is his chemical grandson. Asks if he could advise him on his Ph.D. thesis advisor. [Letter from LP to Wahl April 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1963), #288.7] 
• Letter from LP to Betty Hall, Underhill Center, RE: Thanks Hall for having invited him and AHP to visit during their say in Stowe.  Regrets that their obligations to the Pugwash Conference prevented them from accepting. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]               
• Letter from LP to Louis Newman RE: Discusses LP’s desire to hire Newman for work from June to September.  Discusses supervisors, salary, expected hours, and nature of work with anesthesia. [Letter from LP to Newman April 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]
• Letter from LP to Michael P. Anthony RE: Discusses LP’s desire to hire Anthony for work from June to September.  Discusses supervisors, salary, expected hours, and nature of work with anesthesia. [Letter from LP to Anthony April 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]
• Letter from LP to Professor Ernest D. Riggsby, Troy State College, RE: Directs Riggsby to books and articles in which LP makes comments about the scientific method. [Letter from Riggsby to LP April 16, 1963]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963) #411.8]
• Letter from Professor Clyde R. Miller to LP RE: Discusses the formation of a National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act and expresses desire for LP to engage in that committee.  Miller notes LP did not return the sponsor card in a previous letter and requests he do so now.  Miller explains the ideas of the Committee and encourages LP to participate. [Letter from Miller to “Friend”, March 12, 1963, Letter from Miller to “Friend”, Undated 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Political Issues: Academic Freedom - The McCarran Acts, 1950-1963: Box #2.035, Folder #35.27]
• Letter from Secretary to LP, to Phil Cullom RE: Sends papers and requests that they are put in the glove compartment of the Ford truck. [Letter from LP to Phil Cullom December 4, 1963]  [Filed under LP Biographical: Box # 4.047 Folder # 47.1]
• Offprint, “A U.S. - U.K. Memorandum of Position Concerning the Inspection Provisions of a Treaty on the Cessation of Nuclear Weapons Tests.” [Filed under LP Peace: (Typescripts and Offprints related to SANE, 1960-1963), Box #4.006, Folder #6.8] 
• Offprint, “Critique of the Scientific Assertions of Representative Craig Hosmer in His Letter of March 18 to President John F. Kennedy,” U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. [Filed under LP Peace; (Typescripts and Offprints related to SANE, 1960-1963), Box #4.006, Folder #6.7] 
• Postcard from Pinchao Nasich to LP RE: Thanks him for his reply. Informs that he will find a fatigue of the cells being fed during all the two millenniums of their exile with mostly poultry and the reaction being Leukemia. [Letter from LP to Nasich April 15, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1963), #288.7] 
• Program: April 22-23, Basic Mechanisms of Narcosis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.3] 
• Program: “What is SANE?”, SANE. [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks: Box #6.008 Folder #8.378]       
• Report, “Indictment by the Attorney General of the German Democratic Republic Against the State Secretary in the West German Office of the Federal Chancellor Hans J.M. Globke” [Filed under LP Peace: Issues of International Diplomacy and Human Rights: Box #6.014, Folder #14.7]