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...case involving a barking dog* when he was called to Washington to handle the case involving Joe McCarthy. An old acquaintance, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, had suggested him for the job. After the call came, Ray broke the news to Partners Erby and Aubrey Jenkins (brothers, but no kin to Ray) with the preface: "The most fantastic thing has happened...
...confused with the daily Times of London (no kin...
Toothpicks & Jalopies. Samuel Powers Sears, 58 (remote kin of "Bobo" Paul Sears Rockefeller), comes from a Cape Cod seafaring family whose heritage he upholds as commodore of the Dennis (Mass.) Yacht Club. At Harvard ('17), Sam turned his musical talent into Hasty Pudding shows-tunes by Sears, words by Robert Sherwood. The pair worked in a musty office, where young Sherwood hung his portrait among those of the great poets, while Sam's was flanked by pictures of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Sam can still pound out lively barroom piano music, but with maturity, he has acquired...
...Send for the Fire Chief." Kin to ten dukes, a marshal of France and one of Lafayette's officers, De Castries joined the French army as a private (1921), got his commission at cavalry officers' school, kept in trim between the wars by riding on the French international equestrian team (he once held the world record for the mounted broad and high jump). Early in World War II, De Castries was badly wounded and captured while trying to lead 60 men through an encircling German battalion. He failed in three escape attempts, made it on his fourth...
...Carthy, 'Course, when I think o' some o' th' things Joe says 'bout Pussy an' commie-coodlin' at Harvard, can't say as I blame 'em. An' th' way th' Sen'tor wuz feudin' with thet army feller (heard that one over in th' ray-dee-o), I kin git pretty damn well het up m'self...