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...Owen S. McCall revealed that Arthur "Sonny" Dunnett and Francis J. Judd, both of whom are serving terms in a federal penitentiary for violations of the gambling stamp act, had been on the city payroll for several years...
Then came the trial's most surprising performance. Down from Washington to testify in McKeon's behalf came General Randolph McCall Pate, commandant of the Marine Corps and the man who approved the court-martial and, in April, angrily called McKeon's action "deplorable." Tieless and affable, Marine Pate first went out of his way to shake McKeon's hand and murmur "Good luck to you, my boy," before he took the witness stand. If it were up to him, he said haplessly, in answer to "Zuke" Berman's hypothetical question, his only punishment...
With her guard held high, the Duchess of Windsor charged out of the neutral corner where she had stood fast for two decades after marrying Britain's newly abdicated ex-King Edward VIII in 1937. Occasion: McCall's magazine this week began publishing her serialized autobiography, This Is My Side of the Story, which the duchess contends she wrote all by herself. In her "simple story," the Baltimore-bred duchess, after confessing that "no one has ever accused me of being an intellectual," rolls off into her halcyon childhood memoirs, interspersed with some harsh looks in the mirror...
...General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Teleradio subsidiary for its film backlog (TIME, Aug. 1), will swing back into full operation as a major moviemaker. After virtually shutting down under Industrialist Howard Hughes, RKO will start off with a $22.5 million budget for eleven films (among them: Cash McCall, A Farewell to Arms, The Syndicate) in the first six months of 1956 alone...
...about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas amnesty" for the Reds, the petition argued, would help prove U.S. confidence in democratic institutions, boost the reputation of the U.S. abroad, and "contribute toward peace in the world." Meanwhile, in her monthly Q. & A. column ("if you ask me") in McCall's magazine, Petitioner Roosevelt was Q'd as to which eligible Republican, not counting Dwight Eisenhower, she would find "most tolerable" as President of the U.S. A'd she: "Chief Justice [Earl] Warren would be the best candidate. Richard M. Nixon would be the least attractive...