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...McCarthy investigator. He never got it; but that was how he described himself, according to the prosecution, when he called on Democrat Fritchey, promising sensational disclosures because he was "disillusioned." Fritchey paid Hughes for months of "research." When that failed to produce any legal evidence against McCarthy, Fritchey bade Hughes goodbye...
...iron police tradition of Founder Elbert Gary, became the first steelmaker to sign with John L. Lewis' C.I.O. According to legend, the crack in the ranks of steel came one day in Washington's Mayflower Hotel lobby, when handsome Mrs. Taylor spied Lewis' leonine head, bade her reluctant husband: "Myron, I want to meet that man ... so bring him over here." On retiring from active management, Taylor became a diplomatic troubleshooter for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was their personal emissary to the Vatican...
...against his father's. When Bob was small, Lincoln low-rated him as "the little rareripe sort, that are smarter at about five than ever after." Edward, the next son, died at three. It was of him Lincoln spoke ("Here one is buried") when, as President-elect, he bade goodbye to his Springfield neighbors. Third son William Wallace was a blue-eyed "blessed angel" and his mother's favorite. But Thomas, the baby, was Lincoln's special pet. Scanning the large head and slim frame of the infant, Lincoln dubbed him "Tadpole...
Forgoing his gimpy English, the President-elect talked to Ike in Portuguese, translated by Brazil's Washington Ambassador Joāo Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the Brazilian commercial airliner that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon-all in 17 hectic days...
...Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives, two alarmed men from the alarm company. Ever the soul of aplomb, ex-Minister to Luxembourg Mesta excb'ned it all, graciously bade a happy holiday to her callers...