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Just completing his first Senate term, Hunt seldom stole the limelight, but was respected for his painstaking work on the Armed Services Committee. A semi-pro baseball pitcher in his youth, he spent 22 years in politics (twice state governor), and was the Senate's only dentist. Wyoming's Governor C. J. Rogers, a Republican, said he expected to name Hunt's successor soon to serve until next January...
...lively show. Robert T. Stevens. Secretary of the Army, was the principal witness of the first week. Stevens, a topflight businessman, found himself snarled in a dirty little fight where the fate of an Army private named G. David Schine and the fate of a New York dentist named Irving Peress somehow became high affairs of state. Senator McCarthy, ever the showman, gave televiewers their time's worth. A new character. Ray Jenkins, the committee's trap-jawed counsel, brought to the screen the forensic flamboyance of a Southern trial lawyer...
...this battle of the agelong war, what is the part played by the junior Senator from Wisconsin? He dons his war paint. He goes into his war dance. He emits his war whoops. He goes forth to battle and proudly returns with the scalp of a pink Army dentist...
...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
...suspicion of disloyalty. Their courage and their devotion have been proved in peace as well as on the battlefields of war." Specifically included in the President's tribute was the immediate target of McCarthy's wrath-Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker, commander at Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Dentist Peress was stationed...