Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancers swung and swayed with Sammy Kaye on the Astor roof and shirt-sleeved crowds jostled up and down Times Square one hot, sticky night last week as 2,000 men and women filed off Broadway and into the Astor's grand ballroom to pay homage to Roy Cohn. Except for Indian Charlie and Private Dave Schine (on duty at Camp Gordon, Ga.), nearly everyone in the McCarthy crowd was there. New York had probably not seen such a display of sentiment since Lou Gehrig said farewell at Yankee Stadium...
Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, toastmaster and prime organizer of the $7-a-plate dinner, gave Cohn the first plaque. Then, in rapid order, Lawyer Cohn got six scrolls, three more plaques and a paperweight from as many organizations, including the "Anti-Peress Group of the P.T.A. of P.S. 49." Bellows of hoarse approval went up as Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky attacked "senile" Senators. Fulton Lewis Jr., an "I'm for McCarthy" badge decorating his lapel, criticized his fellow newspapermen for their lack of objectivity about McCarthy. Then Archibald Roosevelt, Teddy's son, led the crowd in booing...
...noise rose several decibels when 17-year-old Columbia University Sophomore Goerge Reisman of Students for America called Cohn the "American Dreyfus" and barked: "Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans." But the loudest ovation of all came when Rabbi Schultz introduced "My Hero," Joe McCarthy himself...
Said Joe: "Roy thinks he has resigned [as chief counsel for McCarthy's permanent investigating subcommittee], but I want to tell Roy Cohn he has not and cannot ever resign . . . I intend to draw on the knowledge and background he has in Communism. The most brilliant young man I've ever known is always going to be available, and called upon very, very often for help and advice." It was nearly midnight, and the room was heavy with eye-stinging smoke when Rabbi Schultz rose to introduce the Junior Hero. Said Schultz: "The plain people know the loss...
...Glumly. Cohn returned to his Manhattan law practice, promised to do spare-time work for McCarthy's cause, and (at 27) dashed off his memoirs for the Hearst papers. McCarthy insisted that he would never be able to hire another counsel like Cohn. No one disputed him on that...