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...Conn's activities on behalf of Schine, and 2) McCarthy's countercharges. McCarthy stepped down as chairman, freely admitting that he had "prejudged" the case since he had questioned Cohn and was "fully satisfied" that no "unfair influence" had been used. South Dakota's amiable, rotund Karl Mundt reluctantly accepted an "unwelcome promotion" to the chair after failing to persuade the Armed Services Committee that it should arbitrate the incendiary political dilemma...
...That's What I Mean." On the set of He Walked by Night, Webb met the technical adviser, a rotund, cheerful Los Angeles detective sergeant named Marty Wynn. "It rankles every damn cop in the country when they hear those farfetched stories about crime," Wynn said to Webb. "Why don't you do a real story about policemen?" Wynn forgot the conversation in an hour. But three weeks later Webb arrived with Radio Producer Bill Rousseau at the Los Angeles police academy, where Wynn was taking a refresher course in criminal law and rules of evidence. Webb asked...
...relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
...Automobile Mechanics Union began organizing auto dealers' mechanics in Chicago in 1939, Carl Petersen's Chevrolet agency balked. Two of his employees struck and began picketing. After two years of it, they got fed up and quit. The union kept picketing anyway, using Alexander Orr, a ruddy, rotund little Scottish bachelor and professional picket...
...from easy. Five and a half months ago Adlai Stevenson decided to solve the problem by gratifying his desire to see more of the world. Last week, bouncing out of a DC-6B at New York's Idlewild Airport, Stevenson was home again, tanned, a bit more rotund, and apparently still very eligible...