Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, tall, solemn Jimmy Lewis and his chief lieutenant, wisecracking little Jimmy Radeck, 13, flew to the capital at the expense of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (combined circ. 207,784) to get a pat on the back from G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself...
...Agreed to rescue the controversial displaced-persons law from the smothering wing of Nevada's Pat McCarran, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, for a vote early next month...
Patrick A. (Pat) McCarran, Democrat from Nevada, 73, pompous, vindictive and power-grabbing-a sort of McKellar with shoes on. Working hand in glove with McKellar, he tied the 81st Congress' appropriations machinery in knots, staged a one-man committee filibuster against a liberalized bill to admit D.P.s to the U.S., and almost succeeded -with McKellar-in mutilating the Marshall Plan last summer. To control or retaliate against Senators who stand up against him, the silver-haired spokesman of the silver bloc swings a big club: chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, which passes on all claims against the Government...
...toss a medicine ball with me at 7 o'clock in the morning." But soon there were enough aspiring, perspiring Republicans to form two medicine-ball squads on the White House lawn every morning, tossing a 5-lb. ball over a 9ft. net. Among them: Mark Sullivan, Pat Hurley, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Harlan Stone...
...Shostakovich was clapped into the doghouse by his Kremlin masters two years ago (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), he had been slowly nuzzling his way out. He had publicly recanted his "bourgeois formalism" and promised to do what was expected of him. Ten months later, he finally got a friendly pat and a few kind words from Izvestia and Pravda for his score for the movie Young Guard. Last week, he was the top Soviet composer once again. For his oratorio, Song...