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...Fighting Bob." Army Secretary Stevens wrote McCarthy an appeasing letter which confessed the Army's bungling in the Peress case and pledged correction of the procedures which brought it about. Unappeased, McCarthy .called Brigadier (General Ralph Zwicker, commander of Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Peress had been stationed, to the stand. Zwicker, trying to protect his superiors, gave some answers that were less than candid. McCarthy, lashing out, made the outrageous suggestion that Zwicker, an officer with a line combat record, was "not fit to wear that uniform." Zwicker had been insulted, although not publicly pilloried; the hearing was closed...
...questions asked. When an Army officers' loyalty questionnaire was sent to him, Peress refused to fill it out. While one arm of the Army was investigating him, another arm gave Peress a routine promotion to major. Last Jan. 18 the Army ordered Major Peress, then stationed at Camp Kilmer, N.J., to be honorably discharged within three months. On Jan. 30, McCarthy grilled him in secret session. Peress refused to answer, pleading the Fifth Amendment. Three days later he was a civilian with an honorable discharge...
Swinging Doors. Why, McCarthy wanted to know, did "this Fifth Amend ment Communist [get] a hurry-up honorable discharge after I had written Secretary Stevens asking he be court-martialed?" To find out, McCarthy called to the stand Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Camp Kilmer's commander. Said the general: regulations prevented him from discussing security cases. Whereupon Joe McCarthy ordered the doors shut for a closed session...
...Kilmer S. McCully '55 of Thayer Hall and Alexander, Virginia was elected captain of the Yardling team before the meet...
Duelling with sabres will be Pete Kenney, Johnny Steinberg, Charles Querfield, and Bill Moore. Mike Finklestein, Kilmer McCully, and Jerry Brodkey will be in the foil division, and Walton Rawls, Carter Pfaelzer, and Paul Forand in the epee...