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Elegantly outfitted and wearing a vacant smile, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald stepped back into the spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed...
...Washington, the Maine State Society ordered 500 choice Maine lobsters, gallons of clam chowder and other native delicacies for their annual dinner, invited House Speaker Joe Martin to come along and show how a man from Massachusetts tackles a well-turned lobster claw...
...McMahon's vice chairman, the committee has tried to function on a tentative basis; but Government agencies, which have worked closely with the chairman in the past, now have no key man to contact. Members, fearful that they might tip the chairmanship stalemate the wrong way, have been clam-quiet on some important issues, e.g., the Navy's failure to promote Captain Hyman G. Rickover, the atomic-submarine expert...
...press policy. At first Lieut. General Taylor's press officer said the questions would not be answered because they were "impolite." Then, apparently after consulting the Army's "ten commandments" on public information policy (sample: "The fundamental concept of the Army is one of disclosure"), Taylor opened Clam-Up a bit. He said that correspondents could interview Eighth Army soldiers-with due regard for military security-provided that they were "willing to be interviewed." But this week NBC Correspondent (and ex-Air Force lieutenant colonel) Tex McCrary was placed in protective custody for failing to let a regimental...
...three incidents were the latest evidence of what Korean correspondents call "Operation Clam-Up," a restriction on the press which stems from an order by Major General Paul D. Adams, the Eighth Army's chief of staff. Adams, angered by unfavorable stories, e.g., Operation Smack and the uproar over the 65th Infantry (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), passed the word down that there had been too much "irresponsible talk" and that he did not want a "gabby" army...