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...Millard Tydings, said that his charges were a "fraud," McCarthy shifted his course, chased Tydings through Maryland, got questionable credit for Tydings' defeat. When another Senate subcommittee said that the tactics used against Tydings were "despicable," McCarthy brushed it aside. Whenever anyone scored a knockdown, McCarthy took a bow. His deepest: 1) when Foreign Service Officer John Service was fired, after McCarthy had called him "pro-Soviet"; 2) when Owen Lattimore was indicted on a charge of perjury, after McCarthy had called him a "top Russian agent...
...have come to expect from Jo Miclziner. He has produced a fun house, Ferris wheel, and the illusion of a rollercoaster--always in subdued colors which suggest Coney Island but are easy to watch. The dances, except when they are sparked by Maria Karnilova, seem included more as a bow to tradition than because they are fresh and worth performing...
Whether the new building remedied this problem has since been debated, but the fund-raising campaign, boosted by William Randolph Hearst, was a cheering success. Soon a triangular lot bounded by Plympton, Bow, and Mt. Auburn Streets was purchased, and architect Edmund Wheelwright, one of the Lampoon founders, was commissioned to design the building...
...blend well with the Gold Coast surroundings, Wheelwright hoped to design a Flemish castle in miniature. Once the plans were approved, he sailed to Holland, and traveling through the canals by tugboat, spent two years gathering the antiques and curios that were later to adorn the walls of 44 Bow Street. The building was at last completed at a cost of only...
...behind this activity is five-ten and well built. His personal trademarks are a bow tie, a gleaming white shirt, and a guttural voice which rises with his intensity of expression until it approximates a squawk. Dunlop is basically a scholar and teacher, but he has an intense desire to merge the practical world with the academic. He likes to quote Whitehead: "It is the union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalization which forms the novelty in our present society...