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Died. Harold Dewey (for the Admiral) Smith, 48, quietly efficient vice president and acting head of the World Bank, longtime (seven years) Director of the U.S. Budget, chief inquisitor for the late President Roosevelt into the management and finances of federal bureaus ; of a heart ailment ; on his Culpeper, Va. farm...
...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...
Flesh & Blood. It is Chantal's own obsession with gladness and light that is her undoing. Her moments of spiritual illumination are regarded by those around her as a nervous disorder, and, like Saint Joan, she is forced to submit to questioning. When her first inquisitor, her hysterical father, uncovers nothing but his own cowardice, a psychiatrist is called in. The psychiatrist emerges from the ordeal fit to be put in a strait jacket. Then a perspicacious Catholic abbé, who has secretly doubted the existence of God for many years, is summoned-and finds himself newly inspired with...
Hangover with Friendship. Once the Russians threatened to send Cobin to Russia if he refused to confess that he was a spy. Cobin's reply: "Do you consider it a punishment to be sent to Russia?" His inquisitor smiled. Sometimes Russian officers came into the Americans' solitary cells for a chat...
...Grand Inquisitor. James Boswell was a drunkard, a tomcat, a toady, a conceited ass and at times a consummate nuisance; but he produced almost as great a book as Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress...