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...Visitors were always surprised he was so short, guessed his height at 5 ft. 4 in., his weight from 150 Ibs. to 190 Ibs. His complexion was swarthy, sometimes yellowish, and his face was lightly pitted from a childhood smallpox. His hair was grey and stiff as a badger's, his mustache white. His expression was usually sardonic, his rare smile saturnine. When he laughed loudly he exposed a mouth full of teeth-jagged, yellow teeth-and the sound of his laughter was a controlled, relaxed, hissing chuckle...
Furry appeared relaxed and confident, and the reporters clustered around him were extremely polite and extremely anxious. They pressed forward with their questions, continually returning to badger him about Communist membership. They asked the same questions in a dozen different ways, but every time they did Furry would smile and say "You sound like the Committee" or "I guess Mr. Velde could use you" and everyone would laugh. You could tell, though, that the reporters didn't think it was very funny...
...Times's correspondents throughout the world sent the story echoing back with "reaction" stories from "informed sources." (General reaction: extreme skepticism.) Reporters tried in vain to badger a comment out of General Eisenhower as he was about to go into Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel on Christmas morning. In Washington next day, Harry Truman was besieged all day by queries, finally said that he would be "pleased indeed if any agreement can be reached with Stalin which would achieve world peace." Ike's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, after conferring by telephone with...
...Badger Case, involving Salt Lake City Broker-Dealer Richard C. Badger, who committed suicide in March 1951 after embezzling $648,000 from his customers. SEC examiners had found nothing wrong with his books, though he had filed false reports with the agency since...
Married. Horace Dwight Taft, 27, youngest son of Ohio's senior Senator, now a physics graduate student at the University of Chicago; and Mary Jane Badger, 22, whom he met while studying in Switzerland; in Washington...