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From both Houses came the angry charge that the Administration had turned Donovan loose on hush-hush papers that it has steadfastly denied to Congress. Illinois' Democrat William Dawson, chairman of the House Government Operations Committee, gave examples in a letter to the President demanding the same privilege as Donovan. In the Senate, Arkansas' Democrat John McClellan, chairman of the Permanent Investigating Subcommittee, twice sent telegrams asking Cabinet Secretary Maxwell Rabb to testify on how the reporter's information was supplied. Twice Rabb pleaded ignorance and refused to appear. "Inexcusably arrogant,'' snapped G.O.P. Senator...
...jungle pools. Only stout Victor remains impervious while he tracks down the Mau Mau who murdered his family. Once revenge is taken care of, however, he melts pliantly into Janet's arms. And so-there they can be left as the crimson sun sinks slowly into the green hush of the jungle and we say goodbye to beautiful Kenya...
...bucking the pessimistic tide that often damns man's material progress, dashed off a ten-stanza Poem in a Festival of Art in Boston at the Public Garden, then headed there to read it. Gist of Poem: "Is it the city or heart that's wrong . . . / O hush! There is a silence in this place, / For all the chattering gears that grind, a grace / Of present expectation in this ground . . . / No city stands but is the image of the heart...
...Legal Embarrassment. Insiders insisted, however, that Fabian was already in. Said one of Semenenko's closest associates: "Fabian is behind the whole group." The reason for the hush-hush on Fabian was the federal court order permanently divorcing production and exhibition of Warners movies. The probability was that Fabian was in the deal only on a contingent basis, i.e., stock had been set aside for him, provided that he could figure out how to satisfy the Justice Department and become an open partner. This might be done by dividing Stanley Warner Corp. into two parts, with Si Fabian taking...
Chapotin hopes that tourists who drop in for hush puppies and Cokes will come back for frogs' legs and the cognac that Founder André Millon laid down three-quarters of a century before the democratic revolution...