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...satisfy his superiors. On Aug. 26 he was fired from the FBI for "conduct unbe coming a member of this Bureau." The hapless clerk then confided his troubles to an attorney, who wrote to the FBI expressing doubt about the rationale behind Carter's firing. J. Edgar Hoover, an unmarried male himself for 71 years, replied personally: "The action involuntarily separating Mr. Carter from the FBI was based on a careful review and evaluation of the facts which established his improper conduct, and it is felt that the action taken was proper under the circumstances...
...marries Wanda, daughter of Arturo Toscanini. Father-and sonin-law perform together. Their concerts are sellouts, their records collectors' items. Money, fame, esteem-everything comes quickly to Horowitz-except English. At the White House, when he is presented to Mrs. Hoover, he bows and says, "I am delightful...
...with such weighty subjects as the terrors of trench foot, the best way to dig a latrine and the importance of keeping boots polished. But as in most matters, Red China is different. A 776-page collection of Red Chinese army documents just published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a fascinating exception. The papers, some of which were captured from Chinese Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when Red China was nursing bruised shins from the disastrous "Great...
...readers of the Hoover Institution's anthology, a simple moral emerges for the Red Chinese Commissar: those responsible for educational work in the army should have studied the reasons for these examples of backward thinking and tried to reform them. To that end, the Red Chinese army has developed a series of programs that sound like some sort of ideological drill manual. The "Three Skills Movement" emphasizes "four grasps and one investigation"; there are "five togethernesses" to combat the "five excessives" (excessive reports, excessive documents, excessive meetings, excessive persons in office, excessive general appeal) and two remembrances, which...
...filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...