Word: schine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27 yesterday refused to comment on his letter, read into the Army-McCarthy hearing last Friday, which strongly recommended G. David Schine '49 for a Naval Commission...
...Lieutenant. Nevertheless, Schine was absent from Fort Dix part or all of 43 days or nights during his first 75 days in the Army, although the average draftee was given passes on only nine of those days. This was illustrated by two charts that the Army presented. One chart used solid black squares on a calendar to show Schine's absences. The other used white squares with black borders to show normal absences by an average recruit...
Senator McCarthy looked at the charts, charged that they were phony, accused the Army of giving Schine "black marks" for the same routine events that were indicated in white or omitted on the average man's chart. When Ryan's aide, 1st Lieut. John B. Blount, who was wounded on Old Baldy in Korea, followed his chief to the stand, McCarthy asked him about the black and the white. Blount's answer rocked the hearing room with laughter. Said he: "In my opinion, the reason that it was done was just for comparative purposes, just like...
...Captain. To Captain Joseph Miller, Schine's first company commander, McCarthy was less friendly. Miller, a com bat medic in World War II, a platoon leader in Korea, described life with Schine in restrained terms, but showed signs of inward boiling when McCarthy baited him by calling his testimony "drivel...
Within an hour after Schine reported to him for duty, Miller related, the private suggested that the captain might want "to make a little trip to Florida." Miller cut him off in midsentence, admonishing him that "it was improper for officers to accept any kind of favors . . . from trainees." One rainy day, when Schine's company was on the firing range, Miller spotted Schine sitting in the cab of a truck. Schine explained that he was "studying logistics...