Word: carr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete identification of the picture, Counsel Jenkins called in Air Force Sergeant Herbert Richard Manchester, the superior of the enlisted man who actually snapped the shutter. Sergeant Manchester identified the fourth man whose sleeve appeared in the Welch print: it was McCarthy Aide Frank Carr, eliminated from the original print by the Air Force darkroom because he was looking away from the others in the picture...
Then committee members began to question Stevens. Chairman Mundt directed his questions to the charges made against McCarthy's staff director, Francis Carr, who had also been accused by the Army of intervening on Schine's behalf. In reply to Mundt, Stevens said Carr had not sought preferential treatment for Schine to nearly the extent that Roy Cohn had. Stevens concluded: "I think Mr. Carr might have been a little more active in trying to stop some of the conversations that went on, and he did not do that...
Throughout the day, Joe McCarthy had been far more subdued than at previous sessions, nibbling thoughtfully on the bow of his horn-rimmed glasses. When he started questioning Stevens, he was friendly, almost gentle. Said he: "Look, Bob, you're accusing Carr, my staff director, of a very serious thing . . . You see. Bob, you are asking that a young man be discharged .... and you can't tell us what he said...
...that same note, the third day's hearings ended. Said Mundt to Stevens: "May the chair be sure that we understand that you are going to search your mind concerning Mr. Carr and in the morning either particularize the charge or withdraw it against Mr. Carr?" Replied Secretary Stevens, earnestly: "I am certainly going to search my mind and try to do that...
...Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. New yarns lovingly constructed by a pair of contemporary Sherlock fans from "unsolved cases" mentioned in the original stories (TIME, April...