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...interesting mind, and not only because it belongs to the present President of the United States. It is a mind without glamour and illusions, a highly moral and intensely practical mind. Interviews, letters, and private memoranda reveal primarily a man devoted to his ideals, yet scornful of "professional Liberals," a student of history who is not awed by tradition...
...anti-trust case began in 1947 and is still in progress. According to Wysanski, Kaysen's function has been to read, condense, and offer advice on the economic aspects of the "voluminous evidence" that has been built up. Memoranda and comments compiled by the economist will aid in the preparation of the ultimate findings of the case...
This week an assortment of Forrestal's dictated memoranda, calendar notes and letters were bundled together and published as The Forrestal Diaries (Viking, $5). The title is actually a misnomer, because Forrestal's notations were largely his personal reminders about people and events and rarely reported on his own actions...
...style scare tactics; McCarran set his sessions in a small, fourth-floor capital committee room, banned play-by-play television and newsreel coverage. The air of authority stems from the fact that committee investigators swooped down on a Massachusetts barn last February and seized some 300,000 letters and memoranda belonging to the Institute of Pacific Relations. Committee Counsel Robert Morris, a patient young lawyer who was Republican counsel in the Tydings committee hearings last year, soon proved that he had done his homework well as he set up his bits & pieces of evidence...
...snaps and snarls at those closest around him. It used to be that he sloughed off his troubles at night. Now he takes that damned briefcase of his to Blair House every night, filled to the locks, and sits up at all hours studying State Department memoranda and war reports. He doesn't get his sleep...