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Eyebrows & Questions. The first clouds had appeared Feb. 10. That day the Kansas City Star carried a half-column story from its Kansas correspondent, Alvin S. McCoy, about a Kansas state hospital building. It was a tuberculosis hospital built in 1928 under a strange arrangement between the state and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a fraternal insurance company. The A.O.U.W. paid for construction of the building on state property at Norton, in northwestern Kansas; the state agreed to run the hospital, giving A.O.U.W. policyholders a priority on its beds. In March 1951, when the insurance order's list...
...Double a Democrat." Strife within Kansas Republican ranks, boiling long before the hospital fuss, spilled over. Governor Edward F. Arn, a member of the G.O.P. faction that includes Roberts and U.S. Senator Frank Carlson, testified that he found nothing wrong with the transaction. He said that Reporter McCoy "stirred up and distorted the whole thing" because of a grudge against Roberts. Three other witnesses said they had heard McCoy say he was going to "get" Roberts...
Nobody was happier at the song's success than George M. McCoy, executive vice president of Borden Food Products Co., makers of Klim, a powdered whole milk. On a visit to Leopoldville two years ago, McCoy noticed that, after the bicycle, the phonograph was the natives' dearest possession. He got the owner of a local record company to help him write some lyrics in Lingala, the vernacular understood up & down the Congo River, set them to a jungle rhythm and had records made. The song...
What a person says is conveyed adequate by radio and it makes poor economy to pay about five times a given amount invested in radio just to see what the speaker books like. Harvard professors never win beauty contests, but what they say amounts to considerable sense, generally. Vasco McCoy...
...press. Last week, in London's New Statesman and Nation, leftist Labor M.P. Richard Grossman-himself something of a minor oracle-announced that Nenni had found the reports regrettably inaccurate; Grossman, who had recently met his fellow leftist Nenni in Italy, then undertook to give the definitive, real McCoy version...