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SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER, this week's cover subject, started to introduce Correspondent Donald S. Connery to Democratic Press Secretary Clayton Fritchey one day last week. Said the Senator: "You know Mr. Connery . . ." Nodding, Fritchey interrupted: "Of course. He's your Boswell, isn't he?" Kefauver grinned: "Yes, but he's better than Boswell...
...Finnegan (TIME, Aug. 27) was named campaign manager for both Adlai and Running Mate Estes Kefauver; onetime (1946) Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, who headed Stevenson's 1952 campaign, became "personal adviser" and "Coordinator of the Campaign Division"; Washington Attorney George Ball was designated "Coordinator of Public Relations"; Clayton Fritchey, longtime newsman (Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), took leave from his job as deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee to become press secretary; and Roger Tubby moved over as "personal assistant," working under Fritchey...
...Hughes, 35, is "base, venal, greedy" and "a louse," who admitted taking money for his fake evidence of crimes by Senator Joe McCarthy and his investigators (TIME, Jan. 30). In all, Hughes collected $10,800 from Joseph L. Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, and Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Democratic Digest, who testified that Hughes had fooled them roundly. But last week Hughes was acquitted in his Manhattan trial for perjury...
Before the scheme collapsed, said the prosecution, Hughes mulcted Joseph Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, out of $8,500 for "expenses" in investigating McCarthy investigators, took another $2,300 from trusting Clayton Fritchey, editor of the Democratic Digest, and gulled the Washington Post and Times Herald into writing-but not quite publishing-a twelve-part series "exposing" McCarthy...
...Basement. Hughes, 35, an Iowan who spent 16 years in the Army, showed up in Washington as a civilian in 1953 looking for a job as a McCarthy investigator. He never got it; but that was how he described himself, according to the prosecution, when he called on Democrat Fritchey, promising sensational disclosures because he was "disillusioned." Fritchey paid Hughes for months of "research." When that failed to produce any legal evidence against McCarthy, Fritchey bade Hughes goodbye...