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Once every two years James Bab-cock, sub-foreman in the Maintenance Department, climbs the 267 winding steps to the top of the Memorial Hall tower on a routine inspection tour...
...Cock & Bull." Before Fulton Lewis Jr. took him up, Jordan had tried to peddle his story elsewhere. Though Jordan offered a neatly written notebook as "documentation," it was turned down as farfetched and without proof in its most important points...
After the headline-making broadcast, Author Robert Sherwood, biographer of Hopkins, promptly labeled the yarn "one of the most amazing cock-and-bull stories I have ever heard." He declared that never, in his reading of thousands of Hopkins papers, had he seen any White House stationery bearing his name. In initialing documents, said Sherwood, Hopkins invariably wrote "H. L. H.," never "H. H." This week the House Un-American Activities Committee opened a hearing. On the stand, Racey Jordan repeated his charges; but this time said he had spoken to Hopkins only once. The committee's investigator pointed...
...sailed out in 1808 to fight triumphantly with the Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic. Some 30 years later she headed for the Mediterranean with a combined fleet of British, Austrian and Turkish vessels, in the 1840 war against Egypt. A symbolic cock (to show that she was cock of the walk) rode high above her royals when she returned to Britain...
...they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...