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...RUSSELL NEWBOLD New York City
...Capitol Hill for a congressional once-over went smiling Judge James P. McGranery of Philadelphia, Attorney-General designate, the man picked by Harry Truman to do the promised house-cleaning chore that Newbold Morris and Howard McGrath fouled up so spectacularly last month. McGranery's performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee left his inquisitors, friend & foe alike, mostly unsmiling...
...Among Morris' direct descendants is great-grandson Gouverneur Morris, novelist and short-story writer. Newbold Morris, recently fired as Harry Truman's special corruption hunter, is a great-great-great-nephew, as is his brother, George L. K. Morris, "concretionist" painter and a onetime editor and angel of the Partisan Review...
...average week she is likely to be busy for dinner almost every night, and never miss having lunch with "someone," which means anybody from Navy Secretary Dan Kimball to Eleanor Roosevelt. After Newbold Morris was roughly handled by a congressional committee for his part in the tanker deals (TIME, March 12), Columnist Fleeson carted him home to cheer him up with a home-cooked meal-and, incidentally, get a column...
...charged with a tall task: "To restore the confidence of the people in the integrity of the administration of justice." He added 1) that he would depend on the FBI to find out where corruption existed, 2) that he would not "waste any money" continuing the kind of inquiry Newbold Morris had pressed, and 3) that he had no plans to look into the conduct of Howard McGrath. "What right," he asked, "would I have to do that...