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McCarthy and Welch were only the leaders of the battle: some of the most vivid scenes center around their allies, cohorts, and lieutenants. Ever present beside McCarthy, sitting close at his elbow and whispering constantly in his ear, is one of the strangest participants, Roy M. Cohn. In one scene Counsel Welch is cross-examining one of McCarthy's assistants about where a "doctored" photograph which McCarthy introduced as evidence came from. Welch inquires sarcastically if a "pixie" brought it in, and Cohn leans over to whisper something in McCarthy...
...McCarthy begins his accusation, Cohn, who has been close to his side throughout the hearing, suddenly sits back. His face has a pained expression, and he shakes his head slowly in disbelief at what McCarthy is doing...
...reason the Senate held the hearings is explained in a terse foreword: the Army charged that McCarthy and two members of his staff, Roy Conn and Frank Carr, had sought special favors for Private G. David Schine, one of McCarthy's assistants. McCarthy and Cohn countercharged that the Army was holding Schine as a hostage to prevent their investigation of subversion in the Army...
...decency left at all?"-and the spectators burst into sustained applause. In the end, the other Senators on the subcommittee turn fiercely against McCarthy. "No one is afraid of you ... in or out of jail," bellows Senator McClellan, and Senator Symington hoots: "Go see a psychiatrist." Even Counsel Cohn looks as though he longed to desert the sinking ship. As for McCarthy, he just sits there with a strange and frightening look on his face: a smile that is some how vicious, a grin like the grin of a wounded and desperate hyena. The look is the look...
...Tribune at expanding the boundaries of reader interest. A Tribune suggestion in 1960 caught the eye of Minnesota's U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, who took it to Washington-where John F. Kennedy put it into effect as the Peace Corps. The Tribune's able science reporter, Victor Cohn, produced a farsighted series on Russian science in 1951-six years before Sputnik. For 24 years, the paper has been urging its readers away from Midwestern isolationism with a world-consciousness that is the projection of globetrotting Publisher John Cowles. He yielded leadership to his son John...