Story--Keeps Father From Ceremonies

A New York Herald Tribune story saying that James V. Hunt, a wartime Lieutenant Columbia, had received $1000 as down payment for work he said he would do to get a client a government contract means that Hunt will be the able to see his son graduates from Harvard tomorrow.

His office said Hunt had cancelled his scheduled trip to Cambridge to consult his lawyer over the affair.

The Herald Tribune story touched off a three-pronged investigation of government contract practices by the Department of Defense, the War Assets Administration, and a Senate Committee.