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Meanwhile, before another Senate committee, Bill Boyle was busy throwing dust. Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine asked him why he permitted E. Merl (mink coat) Young to work for him when he was an official of the 1948 Democratic campaign. "There must be some confusion," Boyle replied. "I was a volunteer worker in the 1948 campaign ... I held no title ... or office . . . I've certainly striven to conduct myself as my mother would want...
...morning last week, when Neal arrived at Barbara's house, she was on her way out "to an appointment." Neal stuck around, heard Barbara call her maid, ask that her mink coat and overnight bag be sent to the Beverly Hills Hotel. Right then, Neal got suspicious. "I knew," he said, "that Tone was back in her life again...
...wonder what the 56 Founding Fathers, from their invisible presence in our congressional halls, would say about the procession of men in responsible positions who have come before its committees of this day. What would they have thought of the 'sacred honor' of the five-percenters, the mink coats, the Deep-Freezers, the free hotel bills...
Most of the stars in this constellation rose, if not from rags to riches, at least from muskrat to mink. They are good-looking, by & large intelligent, hard-working and talented. Yet, in the telescopes of the stargazers, none of them shows up with that special and undefinable brightness that was the glamor of Hollywood's great stars...
...House of Representatives, whose members cannot be bought with mink coats, last week prostituted itself for the veterans' lobby. Everybody, as the saying goes, loves a soldier, and a Congressman yields to no man in showing how deep his love goes...