Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period was the doomsday rumble in the voice of Subcommittee Counsel Bernard Schwartz. By week's end intense, brilliant Lawyer Schwartz, 35, New York University Law School professor and author of seven published books on law, had proved to be the most unlovable congressional investigation counsel since Roy Cohn...
...narrator, goes to Westerbork before he has to. A high-school teacher, he goes because he has the offer of a job with the "Disposition Service," the Jewish organization within the camp that really runs the grisly show for the Germans in charge. His boss is Siegfried Israel Cohn, a German Jew with years in concentration camps behind him, whose sense of self-preservation is so strong that he is prepared to outdo his masters in brutality. Carefully he explains to his new young "adjutant" that though all the Jews will reach Auschwitz in the end, the disposition crew will...
...brothers. Cynically at work saving his own skin, Henriques is yet fascinated by Hirsch's stubborn spiritual strength. On the day Hirsch and his family are led to the train, all the suppressed guilt in Henriques boils to the top. Through a single act of revenge (toward Cohn) and kindness (toward Hirsch), Henriques forfeits his life. In a desperate effort to expiate his sins, he writes the confession which is Breaking Point-and he writes hurriedly, because he is on the list for the next train to Auschwitz...
...Crimson mile relay team composed of Landau, Dave Brahms, Pat Liles, and Lee Barnes is pitted against runners from Yale and Georgetown. A two-mile quartet, including Bill Thompson, captain Pete Reider, Art Cohn, and Ed Martin will meet Yale and Holy Cross. McCurdy thinks that the latter unit is "the best two-mile relay team we've had here in quite a long time...
...nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified before House committees as an "expert witness" on Communism, earned the Wisconsin Senator's praise as "one of our outstanding Americans at this time." After a much-publicized feud with Lawyer Roy Cohn, Pundit George Sokolsky and other pro-Joes, Rushmore was fired by the Hearst press "for economy reasons," signed on with Confidential, resigned as editor before testifying against Confidential in the Hollywood libel trials (TIME, Aug. 26), before his death was debt-haunted, hopefully trying for an assignment from the Police...