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...they have a 114-year lease on it. The tower is a fitting emblem of their domain, which last week made a major expansion. For an undisclosed sum, the partners bought the entire fiefdom of hotels and movie houses assembled over 47 years by J. (for Junius) Myer Schine...
...reason the Senate held the hearings is explained in a terse foreword: the Army charged that McCarthy and two members of his staff, Roy Conn and Frank Carr, had sought special favors for Private G. David Schine, one of McCarthy's assistants. McCarthy and Cohn countercharged that the Army was holding Schine as a hostage to prevent their investigation of subversion in the Army...
...therefore, ironical that Cohn did so much to bring about McCarthy's eventual downfall. The way it came about was that Cohn had a bosom buddy, G. David Schine, the wealthy, not-too-smart son of a hotel-chain owner. Cohn sponsored Schine as an unpaid McCarthy staff investigator. Together, the two went to Europe on a Keystone Cops binge, searching for Communism and mismanagement in U.S. Information Service offices abroad. Soon after their return, Schine made the mistake of getting drafted as a buck private into the U.S. Army. Cohn tried to crowbar the Army into granting Schine...
...stranger to tight corners. Cohn has usually extricated himself with the footwork and quickness of tongue he learned as chief inquisitor for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy in the days when Cohn and Schine were names to reckon with. In recent years, bankrolled in part by high-interest moneylenders in Hong Kong and Panama, Cohn has restlessly bobbed in and out of control of five travel agencies, two airline-insurance companies, a savings and loan association, a small loan company and a swimming-pool building company. His associates in various deals have ranged from the late Columnist George Sokolsky...
...company plans to sell franchises for the centers, estimates that the operators will earn more than 25% annual return. Admission fee for adults starts at $1.50, includes skis, boots and poles. Says Ski-Dabbler Schine: "The idea captured my imagination the first time I heard of it. Skiing is fashionable. It's healthy and clean...