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...forced a change in the committee's rules to enable him, as well as Army lawyers, to question witnesses. Then he issued his bill of 46 particulars against his adversaries "on behalf of Frank Carr . . . Roy Cohn . . . and of myself...
Francis Patrick Carr Jr., 37, McCarthy's staff director, succeeded J. B. Matthews, who resigned under fire last year after he charged in a magazine article that 7,000 Protestant clergymen were Communist dupes. Before that, Carr was an FBI-man for eleven years. The Army accused Carr of abetting Cohn's and McCarthy's threats to keep probing the Army unless favors for Schine were granted...
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...
...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...