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...None of My Worries." Frock-coated Chairman Clyde Hoey responded gallantly: one of the committee (Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy) had expressed the hope that she would state her telephone number as well as address. Oilboat Olga smiled as though North Carolina's Hoey had given her the Hope Diamond to use as a paperweight. She answered all the committee's, questions. She was born in a part of Austria-Hungary which is now Czechoslovakia, came to the U.S. in 1939. She was married to a wealthy, Norwegian-born shipping man named Magnus Konow...
...Hoey Committee (Senate) has become the biggest watchdog on corruption in federal executive departments. Under North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, helped especially by Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and California's Dick Nixon, the committee last year exposed Bill Boyle and the American Lithofold Corp. This year, fortified with a $100,000 budget and eight investigators, it will tackle the sale of tankers by the Maritime Commission in 1947 to the American Overseas Tanker Corp., then headed by Joseph E. Casey, onetime Congressman from Clinton, Mass. It will also delve further into the activities...
...pleasant Edwardian day, that paragon of propriety, Henry James, went down to Sussex to pay a call on G. K. Chesterton. "It was a very stately call," wrote Chesterton, with James all buttoned-up in a frock coat. Suddenly, a terrible bellowing broke out and two unshaven hoboes in workers' "reach-me-downs" burst in. They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said...
Backstage, we saw many girls runing up and down the stairs from the stage to the dressing room. When we arrived, a blonde in a pair of Chinese mandarin pajamas was headed downstairs, and moments later, she came back, this time in a wispy cocktail frock. The fellow, next to me, muttered, "My God! She's forgotten her dress...
...With a Loud Sniff." Centerpiece of The Young Visiters is Mr. Alfred Salteena, "an elderly man of 42 ... fond of asking peaple to stay with him." Staying with him, in fact, when the story opens, is "quite a young girl ... of 17 named Ethel Monticue," whose "blue velvit frock had grown rarther short in the sleeves." Mr. Salteena and Ethel are at breakfast when a letter arrives from Mr. Salteena's friend, Bernard Clark, inviting him to come and stay and "bring one of your young ladies whichever is the prettiest in the face." Taking "out his blotter with...