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...Chicago Daily Tribune learned the truth, McCormick style, about the army versus McCarthy. Under an eight column headline, STEVENS TRIED TO KILL PROBE: McCARTHY, they read a lot about McCarthy's so-called "disclosure" and a very little about what the Tribune termed the "alleged actions" of Roy Cohn. The self-acknowledged "World's Greatest Newspaper," in pursuing its pro-McCarthy bent, made striking use of its prerogative to interpret the news...
According to an Administration official, requests for special treatment of Private Schine poured in from McCarthy's office. Whether or not Cohn's badgering was effective. Schine led the life of a golden boy at Fort Dix, N.J. Under the pretext of having work to do for McCarthy, Private Schine got extra weekend passes and after-hours passes during his recruit training. Reports reached the Army that Schine's "investigating" work was often conducted at his penthouse apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers, and at such niteries as the Stork Club and "21." At camp...
...warned, as quietly as they knew how, that perhaps the Schine affair had gone too far. McCarthy interpreted this as a blackmail threat and tape-recorded the conversations. Then he told his committee, according to Army officials, "The Army is holding Schine hostage to get me to lay off." Cohn had kept a careful eye open for Army cases. When his bellicose boss renewed his interest in the Army, Cohn handed him the Peress case (see box). McCarthy used it on a recent speaking tour, but it attracted little interest. Then it began to boil up. not because McCarthy discovered...
...corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis of terramycin and aureomycin...
Turning to Roy Cohn, the sub-committee counsel sitting by his side, Mr. McCarthy issued these instructions...