Far From the Pawnees

Gene Weltfish, 50, is an energetic, dark-haired woman who for the last nine years has often been in hot water. A lecturer on anthropology at Columbia University, she has wandered far from her studies of the Pawnee Indians, has always had more irons in the fire than her courses on the peoples of Africa. She is American vice president of the Communist-controlled Women's International Democratic Federation, was once president of the federation's affiliate, the Congress of American Women. Last year she did her best to publicize "proof" that the U.S. was using germ warfare in Korea, and last September she flatly refused to tell a Senate internal-security subcommittee whether she was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party.

Last week Columbia University announced that Anthropologist Weltfish's contract would not be renewed--not, said Columbia, because of her politics, but because there were not enough permanent appointments to go around. But with or without a job, Gene Weltfish was still getting into hot water. Once again, Senator McCarthy asked her whether she is now or ever has been a member of the Communist Party. Her reply: "I refuse to answer on the grounds . . ." etc., etc.

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