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...GUNS OF WILL SONNETT (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Walter Brennan stars as a frontiersman searching for his gunfighter...
Double Billing. Dodd and his lawyer, New Yorker John F. Sonnett, aimed their bitterest attacks at the Senator's onetime bookkeeper, Michael V. O'Hare, one of the four who had scoured the files. O'Hare swore that on five occasions, acting under the Senator's instructions, he had "double billed" the cost of airline tickets, getting reimbursement both from the Senate and from the organization that had invited Dodd to appear. He also told of allowing Dodd to "borrow" $6,000 from one of the Senator's testimonial ac counts to clear up back...
...Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper asked at the hearing, if Dodd had really understood the money in the testimonial accounts to be his as a gift-and not a political contribution-why had he carefully avoided writing personal checks against it? Attacking O'Hare's testimony, Sonnett implied that he was a forger, brought in Handwriting Expert Charles Appel, who had testified in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, to show that a number of checks drawn on the ac count had not been signed by Dodd. The Senator himself, otherwise apathetic, was roused to his only really angry outburst...
Fresh from Cornell University Medical College in 1902, Dr. James Sonnett Greene received his first patient: a youth of 20 who stuttered. Between agonizing pauses and machine-gun bursts of repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties in medical school. He told the patient to return in a few days; he would try to find out what could be done. But the boy did not come back. He killed himself...
Peek Up a Rope. If necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...