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...first six months of 1953 was a period to warm the cockles of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored overseas libraries, challenging with cloakroom innuendo the appointment of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, engaging in a transatlantic cat fight with Britain's Clement Attlee. But with the adjournment of Congress, McCarthy had to scramble to keep his name in the big black type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting...
...floor of the Senate one afternoon last week, Nevada's Pat McCarran made a sign to Missouri's Tom Hennings, and the two headed for the Democratic cloakroom...
...would communicate their case to the public. Then voters realizing what a titanic grab the bill is, would change some other Senators' minds. But the bulk of the stories in the press and air concern only cloture plans, baggy-cyed Senators, and plans to set up cots in the cloakroom. The only publications carrying the speeches are the Congressional Record, and the Democratic newspapers. The first is hardly a mass medium, and readers of the second are already convinced...
...Capitol Cloakroom (Fri. 10 p.m., CBS). Interviews with eight freshmen Senators...
With that thought in mind, Fund began his experiment about a month ago, repeated it three different times. His class would elect a boy to retire to the cloakroom and there summon a girl to come out and be kissed. At first, Fund noted that his students were shy, but gradually, he was glad to see, they began to loosen up. At the end of a month, his experiment seemed, from his point of view, a success. It became, says Fund proudly, "a very noisy game...