Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brother Robert, chief counsel for the Senate labor racketeering committee, walked into a political hornets' nest when he said, at a Milwaukee press conference, that an unnamed "union" and "a large company" had, "within the last year," offered effective political support for brother Jack if Bobbie could get the McClellan committee to play ball. The offers, said Bobbie, were "dismissed," reported to Brother Jack-but not to Committee Chairman John McClellan. In Washington, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, senior G.O.P. committee member, demanded that "the whole nauseating affair be fully explored and publicly exposed...
This is not a counsel of perfection or a bit of neo-Renaissance decorum-mongering. Style is attainable (though God knows how), and its absence arouses a dissatisfaction that, in this production, frequently counterbalances and sometimes overbalances the lacquered perfection of the script...
...only collected the prize money wired from Portland but had won $4,400 on his own last December in a puzzle contest in the Chicago American. Last week Balk was hibernating in Brooklyn. The probability that the fix was bigger than Balk arose when Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the U.S. Senate rackets committee, disclosed that racketeers had attempted to bribe a committee witness by guaranteeing to fix a win for him in a newspaper puzzle contest...
...Leonetti , said Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, was unaware of his shady backing, later got a different manager and a growing reputation. Nonetheless, ABC, apparently un nerved by the Washington testimony, yanked Leonetti from a scheduled appearance last week on the Dick Clark Show...
Anne Edwards remembers well the counsel an editor gave her in 1947 when she began her column for the London Daily Express: "Write it so that every woman will say, 'What a bitch Anne Edwards is.' " For the next dozen years, blonde, blue-eyed Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once...