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...week off. The company also sent out hold-for-release stories to the press. Within two days, predictably, Sperry stock shot up 4 3/8 points. The New York Stock Exchange "suggested" that the company declare at once all details about the product. It did. Ever since Manhattan Lawyer Roy Cohn, onetime aid to the late Joe McCarthy, bought Lionel Corp. a year ago, the model-railroad maker's stock has risen, helped by better earnings, rumors, new flashes and promotional splashes. A month ago Lionel President John B. Medaris was scheduled to speak before the prestigious New York Society...
...criminal division as a junior investigator, plunged into the ultimately unsuccessful prosecution of Foreign Policy Adviser Owen Lattimore for Communist activities. In 1952 Bobby moved over to be assistant counsel of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee, but quit after a much-publicized row with Chief Counsel Roy Cohn. Later Bobby rejoined the committee as minority counsel for the Democratic members, wound up as chief counsel after the Democrats won the Senate...
...airplanes and moved down to Hong Kong in 1948. On Calcina's desk stand 19 direct-line telephones to Hong Kong banks. A licensed gold bullion dealer, his investments range from financing a jute mill in South Viet Nam to a $532,000 loan to U.S. Lawyer Roy Cohn to help him acquire control of the Lionel Corp. (TIME, April 18). Living in the comfortable Repulse Bay Hotel, Calcina has an abhorrence of possessions, says of Hong Kong, "I don't want to own anything here. I learned my lesson in China...
...campaigner). In 1952 Bobby joined the legal staff of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee. A diligent worker, he uncovered a headline-getting scandal involving British merchant ships carrying supplies to Red China during the Korean war. The "slipshod" investigations of the committee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, seemed just as scandalous to Bobby, and he resigned from the committee staff. But he was soon back on the subcommittee as the Democrats' minority counsel. After the Democrats won the Senate in 1954, Bob Kennedy took over as the subcommittee's chief counsel...
...Schwartz company gets its fireflies from the southern states of the U.S., where they are collected by youngsters and shipped to Mount Vernon on dry ice. In charge of the 1960 firefly hunt was Marc Cohn, now 19, the son of an atomic scientist at Oak Ridge, Tenn. During the 1960 season he and his teams collected more than 1,000,000 flashing firefly tails...