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Back in the early 1970s, Navy Communications Watch Officer John Walker took a hard look at his best friend Jerry Whitworth and, as he later testified, sized him up as "a possible recruit in the spying business." After more than a decade in the Navy, Walker wanted to retire from the service and was searching for someone who could feed him the kind of inside information that he had been selling to his Soviet contacts at monthly fees ranging from less than $2,000 to $4,000. For three years, said Walker, he spent a great deal of time trying...
Defense attorneys have argued that by making Walker its star witness, the prosecution is "using the shark to catch the minnow." Whitworth's defense may rest on Walker's testimony that the master spy never informed his friend that the stolen secrets were destined for the Soviets. In his final testimony, however, Walker said that "common sense" should have told Whitworth just who the buyer...
...almost three decades before she would marry him. By the time he entered the White House in 1945, she was, he wrote her, "the only person in the world whose approval and good opinion I value." Bess was more modest. "A woman's place in public," she told a friend, "is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight." Bess did read the Congressional Record, but she let Harry hog the headlines and cringed at his public references to her as "the Boss." For him, though, she was. She died in 1982, nearly...
...silhouette has budded, bloomed, overripened, then been gloriously pruned. In the past few years, after a much publicized battle with drugs and overweight, Elizabeth Taylor has re-emerged in the public eye to champion humanitarian causes, especially AIDS research. (She became an energetic supporter after the death of her friend Rock Hudson, and late last week appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing urging her former husband John Warner and other Senators to authorize $80 million in Government funds.) Once shy in public, "the world's most beautiful woman" finally seems to be enjoying her undimmed status as a living screen...
While in general I found The Crimson's May 2 feature article on my friend and colleague Professor Eileen Southern sympathetic and informative, there was at least one misstatement of fact that needs correction, since it perpetuates myths about the Music Department that I am sure did not come from Eileen herself, and that oculd mislead students about course offerings and faculty in the department...