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...Sweetheart." Democrats responded to last week's Brownell shellburst with a scattershot of contradiction and cries of "politics"; they said that Brownell was merely trying to divert attention from the recent by-election results...
...trial big. TYCOON ON PAT'S V LIST bannered the Boston Record. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its story: SOBBING CALL GIRL WEEPS OVER NAMES OF LOVE BUYERS. Punned the New York Mirror: SILENT SINERAMA IN SEX DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George Raft, Disk Jockey Jack Eigen and Sportwriter Bill Stern were splashed across papers indiscriminately. Some of those mentioned denied...
...Scattershot. Criticism continued. In January the American Legion Magazine published an article alleging Communist infiltration into book publishing and book reviewing. Cameron's name was high on the Legion's list of suspects. Last month, testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Louis Budenz, admitted ex-Communist, branded Cameron a party member. Last week the anti-Communist weekly, Counterattack, took...
...With scattershot technique, it fired a broadside that was bound to hit at least part of the target. Listing 31 Little, Brown authors whom it accused of being "fellow-travelers and front supporters," Counterattack suggested that Little, Brown itself had become a "front" organization and that Cameron was largely responsible for the change...
...businessmen who raise an eyebrow at his scattershot method of picking winners and his acceptance of scholarship contributions, Hartman answers: "The awards have no commercial end. I should actually be subsidized by manufacturers...