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...challenged to produce the 205 "security risks" he had accused the department of harboring. Finally, he had announced that he would stake his whole case on the charge that Owen Lattimore was a Russian spy. That was the position he abandoned last week, just three days after J. Edgar Hoover had testified to the effect that his FBI had no such information...
Harry Truman steadfastly refused to let the committee see the FBI files on Lattimore. But this week he authorized FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover-a man in whom Congress has unbounded confidence-to testify before the subcommittee. Hoover said that opening his dossiers would result in a "complete collapse" of FBI procedures. It would dry up sources. Besides, the files contained many un checked rumors. But he said flatly that the FBI had no proof to support Mc Carthy's charges. After .that, McCarthy could only say lamely that he knew some thing the FBI didn...
Last week, tall, solemn Jimmy Lewis and his chief lieutenant, wisecracking little Jimmy Radeck, 13, flew to the capital at the expense of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (combined circ. 207,784) to get a pat on the back from G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself...
...Uganda giraffe ever bear triplets? What fish is venerated in parts of South America at Easter? Why does the glass-winged butterfly have transparent wings? Where is the sole nesting ground of the Kirtland's warbler? This week, amateur and professional nature-lovers, from John Kieran to Herbert Hoover, could find the answers* to such questions in the 50th Anniversary issue of Natural History (circ. 40,000), the official magazine of the biggest natural history museum...
...year way. This week, to celebrate its golden anniversary, Museum President F. Trubee Davison invited 100 top publishers and scientists to lunch amid the albatrosses and petrels in the hall of Oceanic Bird Life, and presented a medal for "faithfulness to natural law" to Amateur Naturalist Hoover...