Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...digging out the facts in the McCarthy-Army dispute, the Senators decided that he had not come clean with them on his past record of pro-McCarthy activity. What finally pricked the bubble of senatorial doubt was an incident of extraordinary lapse of memory by Sam Sears, who apparently was having trouble distinguishing senatorial trees amid the Washington jungle growth...
...Help. Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt, in his three-week search for a counsel, had said, "This job is seeking the man; the man shouldn't seek the job." But Sam Sears was no worm to hide in that old chestnut. He telephoned his Congressman, Boston's Laurence Curtis, to say that he was available. Curtis told Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, who told Mundt, who told Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, a committee member, to locate Sears and invite him to Washington...
...Sam Sears explained that he had misunderstood the press-conference question; he thought it referred only to the case of McCarthy v. the Army, and not McCarthy generally. Committee Democrats did not like this answer, wanted Chairman Mundt to drop Sears, start looking for a more candid lawyer...
Toothpicks & Jalopies. Samuel Powers Sears, 58 (remote kin of "Bobo" Paul Sears Rockefeller), comes from a Cape Cod seafaring family whose heritage he upholds as commodore of the Dennis (Mass.) Yacht Club. At Harvard ('17), Sam turned his musical talent into Hasty Pudding shows-tunes by Sears, words by Robert Sherwood. The pair worked in a musty office, where young Sherwood hung his portrait among those of the great poets, while Sam's was flanked by pictures of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Sam can still pound out lively barroom piano music, but with maturity, he has acquired...
Bostonians who knew Sears doubted that his main motive in seeking the job was to help McCarthy. It was more likely to be a desire to help Sam Sears...