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Simpers & Innocence. Like many who came up the hard way, Walt is a hard man to work for. "Walt puts up this mild front," says his brother Roy, "but underneath it there's drive, drive, drive." He runs a one-man studio. "When you work here," an employee punned, "you're all Walt in." The studio atmosphere, says a former executive, is one of "compulsory democracy." The lowliest ink-girl calls Walt by his first name. "If we didn't," says one employee, "we'd get fired." Says another: "If you contradict...
...Corporal Dan D. Schoonover, 19, of Boise, Idaho, an Army engineer who took command of an infantry rifle squad and stood in exposed position, directing fire. Several times he made one-man attacks on enemy bunkers, once with only a pistol and hand grenades. When his unit was relieved, he volunteered to stay on and continue fighting. He was killed by a mortar shell 48 hours after the battle started, but not before he had "personally accounted for hundreds of enemy casualties...
Thon's worldly success over the past few years has been phenomenal. His last two one-man shows practically sold out (at $500 to $2,000 per painting), and he is now represented in eight important museums. To open an exhibition of Thon's latest paintings this week, Manhattan's Midtown Galleries had to borrow back twelve pictures it had already sold...
...best way to check the dangers that come so easily from closed one-man executive hearings is always to require the presence of at least one other committee member, and he from the opposite party. A Democrat in all of McCarthy's hearings would have kept the Wisconsin Senator from leaking bits and pieces to the press at times of his own choosing. It would also have checked the strong-arm tactics McCarthy used to evict attorneys and witnesses from hearing rooms...
Abolishing one-man hearings should be central to any code of committee conduct, but equally important are a whole series of provisions for guarantees to the witness. He should have the power to cross-examine his accusers and to subpoena witnesses in his own behalf. Because accusations receive so much more space in the press than the replies that come afterward, the investigating Congressmen should be prevented from releasing their charges to the press until the witness has a chance to answer them...