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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...
Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy once called Roy Cohn indispensable in the Senate's effort to ferret out Communists -"as indispensable." the Senator said, "as I am." Last week, however, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. Joe McCarthy, chairman, dispensed with the services of the indispensable Mr. Cohn...
Time for Memoirs. Cohn's career as chief counsel ended at a subcommittee luncheon in the old Supreme Court chamber. Even before the steak and French fried potatoes were served, McCarthy announced Cohn's resignation. Later, he scowled at reporters over the dishes and rumbled that Cohn's departure was "a great victory for the Communists...
Actually. Cohn's forced resignation was a victory for Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, who had demanded dismissals on both sides of the Army-McCarthy row. So far. Potter has failed to hit his Army target. Counselor John G. Adams. ("If we fired John G.," a top Pentagon official said, "it would look like a deal with McCarthy, and the people are tired of McCarthy deals.") But on the subcommittee Potter's vote, plus those of the three Democrats, made up a 4-3 majority that could give Cohn his walking papers...
...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...