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Sound equipment was plugged in; flash light bulbs exploded; in painful embarrassment the new Justice went through a little act for the cameramen. He fumbled when he picked up a pencil; his assistant standing behind him reached out on one side for a piece of paper while Mr. Murphy held it out in the other direction; Mr. Murphy's voice was almost inaudible as he explained that he was sad at leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes...
This year Netherlands troops guarding the frontier with Germany were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers outlined against the sky. Amid jollification, Saint and minion tasted the troops' pea soup, which gulping Peter pronounced "prachtig" ("swell...
...court. Jittery and angry, Witness Kuhn got off to a bad start. When a spectator murmured an epithet, Fritz Kuhn roared: "Stand back! I'll ask the chairman to throw you out if you make remarks about me!" Chairman Dies threw out no spectators, but did ask newsreel cameramen to turn off their lights "because they bother Mr. Kuhn...
Said he, he was born Samuel Ginsberg in the Polish Ukraine, took the name Krivitsky when he became a Communist in 1919. Lighting one cigaret from another, wincing as cameramen exploded flashlight bulbs, he unfolded in five hours of testimony an extraordinary story of the degeneration of a political party that, as he pictured it, had begun as an ardent movement for remaking the world and had turned into the instrument of an imperialist power. He said that Stalin dictated the policies of the U. S. Communist Party and that Russia financed...
...limelight lover after 17 years underground, Witness Krivitsky was still able to smile sardonically for cameramen after five hours of testimony, called it the worst ordeal of his life...