Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During McCarthy's hunt for Communists at Fort Monmouth, Army emissaries to McCarthy warned, as quietly as they knew how, that perhaps the Schine affair had gone too far. McCarthy interpreted this as a blackmail threat and tape-recorded the conversations. Then he told his committee, according to Army officials, "The Army is holding Schine hostage to get me to lay off." Cohn had kept a careful eye open for Army cases. When his bellicose boss renewed his interest in the Army, Cohn handed him the Peress case (see box). McCarthy used it on a recent speaking tour...
...cattle trading. In the '20s, they speculated together in oil leases. Eventually, both struck it rich. Now each owns or controls an empire estimated at upwards of $300 million ; Richardson's wealth is even believed by some to be greater than that of Texan H. L. Hunt, estimated at $500 million or more. He owns a Texas City refinery, a string of cattle ranches, a radio and television chain, a drugstore chain, and, with Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter, the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth...
...work for Hughes in 1924 as his personal assistant: "I'm tired. Between the troubles at RKO and Hughes Aircraft and the troubles in my own domestic life [he is seeking a divorce], I've had it. All I want to do is go out and hunt and fish...
Maine's Donald Parson has taken up the question of just what Keats looked like. According to his contemporaries, he was just over 5 ft. tall, well-proportioned, with a face, as his friend Leigh Hunt put it, "in which energy and sensibility were remarkably mixed up." None of Keats's portraitists, however, could quite agree on how the energy and sensibility should be depicted. Some sincerely meant likenesses looked as caricaturish as the unflattering version by one of Keats's London acquaintances, the aging poet-artist, William Blake, who wrote, after making...
...Conquest of Everest, by Sir John Hunt. An engrossing account of the great climb by the commander of the expedi tion (TIME...