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...room containing HUAC's million-name file of American Communists. The counsel explains that the file can only be opened by the F.B.I. and other "competent researchers." The general public is denied access to its contents. As the visitor enters, a Committee employee, who was looking through a file drawer, quickly closes it. Atop one bank of filing cabinets are placed all the Committee's publications since its inception in 1938. The row extends nearly five feet. The counsel says with pride that this literature contains the heart of HUAC's work. He suggests that the visitor look it over...
Britain in Waughtime is a top-drawer, old-school-tie kind of place; many of the characters belong to a St. James club called Bellamy's (that might be Boodle's), have nicknames such as Jumbo, Fido, Uncle and Chatty, and take it as a matter of course that one wangles the job one wants in the war effort. They are also mostly members of a regiment called the Halberdiers, whose training in the early days of the war and blooding in the Dakar expedition of 1940 are described in Men at Arms (TIME...
...bout of hallucination and irrationality, titled The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (TIME, Aug. 12, 1957), and in 1960, he published the biography of Britain's late, literary Msgr. Ronald Knox. But the third book was only waiting. "He took the pile of manuscript, his unfinished novel, from the drawer and glanced through it," he wrote on the last page of Pinfold. "The story was still clear in his mind. He knew what had to be done...
...second-drawer engineering school at the University of Texas swelled with pride when it acquired a top-drawer man: the University of Illinois' Chemist William Bradley, a leading authority on the molecular structure of materials. Masking its joy, as is proper in academic circles, Texas sent out a routine press release announcing Bradley's appointment-and thereby left untold a typical tale of the great game of faculty raiding...
...that position. When he defended Stripper Lili St. Cyr on an indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black lace panties as a trophy of the victory...