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...Albert Reeves looks after the interests of the Dominican Republic. Former Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a brilliant lawyer, represents Robert R. Young and a group of railroads. Other lobbyists are James P. Kem of Missouri, Fred Hartley Jr. of the Taft-Hartley Act, Scott Lucas of Illinois. Gerald P. Nye is now the president of a records-management and microfilm company, hasn't been in North Dakota in years. Joe Ball has left Minnesota for greener pastures in Manhattan, where he is an official of a steamship agency...
...ARMY'S counsel is easily the smoothest performer, and perhaps the ablest lawyer, in the McCarthy-Army hearings. By the merest tilt of his ample nose, Joseph Nye Welch conveys to millions of televiewers his utter disdain or disbelief; with a gentle pressure of fingertips on his lips or an amused 'sparkle in his eye, he semaphores an attack that will bruise Roy Cohn or disconcert Joe McCarthy...
Early in April, Laborite Aneurin Bevan sideswiped a bus at Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...
Laborite Bevan's reckless political course, leading to his resignation from his party's parliamentary committee (TIME, April 29), was also getting him in trouble. Sir Winston Churchill gloated that Nye's revolt had left him "a stranded whale." Last week the whale was expertly harpooned by Bevan's No. 1 rival in the Labor Party, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison. Apparently with full approval of Clement Attlee, Morrison, in the Laborite monthly Socialist Commentary, accused
Many such voters would follow Nye Bevan on no other issue. But Bevan was quite happy to claim them all. Politically, his driving might be dangerous, but it was no accident...