Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen minutes before the Army-McCarthy hearings ended. Michigan's Senator Charles Potter made an effort to sum up. He passed a mimeographed statement around the hearing room. McCarthy grabbed a copy, gawked at it with astonishment, and rushed it by messenger around the table to his friend from Illinois, Senator Everett Dirksen. Promptly, Dirksen blew a stream of earnest, oily words into Potter's ear. Charlie merely smiled...
Shift of Balance. Said Potter's statement, in part: "I am convinced that the principal accusation of each side in the controversy was borne out by testimony . . . The testimony of witnesses of both sides was saturated with statements which were not truthful ... I believe there may have been subornation of perjury ... I shall propose dismissal of those employees who have played top roles on both sides . . . There should never have been at any time any conversation about a commission or the military status of one of its [the committee staff's] members by anyone but the person concerned...
...face indeed. Its composite features: genial Chairman Mundt, the "tormented mushroom"; Illinois' orating Everett Dirksen ("Old Bear Grease"); Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who didn't know when he was being insulted; Michigan's well-meaning but generally ineffective Potter; and, of course, McCarthy...
...making mellifluous pro-Eisenhower noises a few months ago, is now revealed as McCarthy's staunch supporter on the committee: Idaho's Dworshak, who was publicly insulted by McCarthy a few weeks ago, has masticated his pride and does what Dirksen suggests; Michigan's Freshman Senator Potter seems adrift; Chairman Mundt, trying painfully to be impartial, has won himself a new name-The Tormented Mushroom...
...finest piece of craftsmanship in the June Advocate is a translation by John Wilson from Euripides' Bacchae. Classics. Homer. Euripides. Bronson Potter. Not the Same...