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Ward Briggs, "Meyer Reinhold," Gnomon 75.4 (2003) 380-382 (at 381):

Promoted to assistant professor in 1947 and to associate professor with tenure in 1952, Reinhold's reputation was as a teacher/scholar, not a political activist. His colleagues were thus stunned to hear the crusading anti-Communist radio reporter Walter Winchell (1897-1972) ask on the air one day in 1956, «Why is there a Communist in the Brooklyn College Classics Department with the initials M.R.?» When the president of Brooklyn College, Harry Gideonse (1901-1985) heard of Winchell's report, he felt he had to ask Reinhold certain questions. Rather than answer those questions and possibly implicate friends, Reinhold quietly resigned.

For ten years (1955-1965) he worked in the New York advertising agency of his brother, Louis Reinhold (1911-2002), publishing the study guides from his Brooklyn College courses and such make-work items as Barron's 'Teen-Age Summer Guide' (1960, 3^rd ed. 1965).