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When the case against him seemed overwhelming, Carlino launched a two pronged attack. First he tried a classic smear, telling the Assembly and the press that since the "Communist line" was anti-shelter, his accuser was therefore a Communist or a Communist dupe. Patronizingly, Carlino confessed: "I don't know whether he is being used or is part and parcel of the whole operation...
...right wings, left wings, any wings." For those critics viscerally disposed to dislike his "Crusade," but not disposed to study it, Schwarz does not make things easy. He has not uttered any simple, memorable piece of nonsense, like Robert Welch's statement that Eisenhower was a Communist dupe. The Schwarz Crusade proceeds right out in the open without any of the conspiratorial folderol of Welch's Birchites...
...Massachusetts Democratic senatorial nomination and loses. Rumors have it that the Kennedys purchased the whole convention, including McCormack. Ted Kennedy steps up the campaign. George Cabot Lodge, the Republican nominee, attacks Kennedy as "one of the idle rich, the silver spooners, and the (so-called) Better People, a Harvard dupe...
...curiosity about his character and career are minimal. Nevertheless, from the most unlikely source, Lloyd George has been accorded a highly engaging biography. Richard Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 72, has succeeded in a most difficult biographical enterprise -to write of a famous father without being a bore, a dupe of his fame or indulging in Oedipal iconoclasm. Part memoir, part history and part character study, the book is written with a_ wry acceptance of the comedy inherent in all consanguinity. Clearly, Richard Lloyd George was that rare wise child who knows his own father. F.D.R. and Churchill will...
...hard to say" whether or not James Roosevelt, the House's leading oponent of the HUAC is a dupe of the Communists...