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This week Clifford Case sat before the television cameras and quietly called the story about his sister a dirty smear. His sister, a physical-education teacher at the exclusive Kingswood School for Girls near Detroit, had flown to New York to help him draft the reply. Said Case: "The Adelaide Case mentioned by Bella Dodd was not my sister . . . The Adelaide Case Miss Dodd knew in 1943 was then a middle-aged woman . . . my sister Adelaide was only 31 at that time . . . was then teaching physical education in Boston . . . She never heard of Miss Dodd or the activities described...
...Smear Me If You Can." With obvious pain, Clifford Case added that "Adelaide and I believe there are some other things you should know." Then he revealed the little stain from which the big smear had grown. About a year ago his sister was hospitalized with a severe nervous disorder. When her illness was acute, she said she was concerned because she once belonged to a left-wing study club. Case did everything he could to check her disconnected story, even asked the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover for help. Finally, Case concluded there was nothing to the story...
...reached the bottom in smear technique...
...exile. For a scholar who measures his words, his judgment was scathing: "The battle for freedom and democracy has never been fought and won by craven, selfish politicians who remain silent while they enjoy political power, and then, when out of power and safely out of the country, smear their own country and government, for whose every mistake or misdeed they themselves cannot escape a just measure of moral responsibility...
...John Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim. Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened...