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...reason the Senate held the hearings is explained in a terse foreword: the Army charged that McCarthy and two members of his staff, Roy Conn and Frank Carr, had sought special favors for Private G. David Schine, one of McCarthy's assistants. McCarthy and Cohn countercharged that the Army was holding Schine as a hostage to prevent their investigation of subversion in the Army...
...Alan Burnham. 430 pages. Wesleyan University. $12.50. A photographic survey of the architecturally and historically distinguished buildings of New York as selected by the little band of devout New Yorkers known as the Municipal Art Society. The book's 100-odd photographs, notes Brendan Gill in his foreword, constitute a "veritable Kama Sutra, or manual of instruction, in the wooing of this incomparable city." They also provide a fascinating guide to the paroxysms of borrowed styles-Greek revival, Gothic, Georgian, Italian Renaissance-that afflicted and sometimes ornamented all U.S. cities before they finally achieved in the skyscraper an architectural...
...read a paperback reprint of Admiral Halsey's Story, by Joe Bryan III. Then Fahey made a fair copy of his own diary and sent it to Bryan. He also sent it to Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who sent it to Houghton Mifflin with a gracious foreword...
Menchin's work is highly anecdotal and not to be confused with literature. But it can make for a summer afternoon's light reading-and perhaps dark plotting. For as Morris Ernst remarks in his foreword, the testator's view is: "Who can hurt me in the grave...
...Foreword to Freshmen...