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...third such raid in less than a month, and Diefenbaker asked what was being done to "protect our armed forces." Another Opposition speaker sarcastically demanded assurances that the RCAF's new Bomarc missiles would not be stolen as well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being tightened at armories all over Quebec. In their zeal, soldiers even paid a midnight call on a fashionable prep school and took away the cadets' World War I drill rifles...
DOCTOR DARWIN by Hesketh Pearson. 235 pages. Walker...
...Washington, D.C., finagling for a low number has always consumed considerable time and energy. Most coveted are the tags from 1 to 1250. No. 1 belongs to the president of the board of District of Columbia commissioners (which issues all D.C. licenses). Chief Justice Earl Warren has 10, Drew Pearson 25, Roman Catholic Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle 37, Attorney General Robert Kennedy 50. So intense, in fact, has been the infighting for tags that, starting in 1965, the commissioners decreed that apart from the 1-1250 series anybody could order any combination of letters and numbers...
...Forrestal's depression was a barrage of vilification from the left-wing press. Forrestal, it was said, had ordered that I. G. Farben not be bombed because he owned stock in the company; Forrestal was an "anti-Semite" and a "front man" for U.S. oil companies. Columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell spread the phony story that Forrestal had panicked and run away when his wife was held up by a gunman. The night Forrestal jumped to his death, he left a book open to a passage from Sophocles' Ajax: Better to die, and sleep The never-waking...
...Pearson's thoroughly enjoyable novel is written with the vulgar high spirits of a man who is under no sort of illusion that he is either rendering a public service or creating a work of art. Virtue Smith is a memorable invention. He has devised a way of life for himself that he calls "daylighting." He does Bell's work in two hours; the other six he sits happily at his desk compiling an encyclopedic diary of the company at work...