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...filled out a lengthy application and shipped it out. Sure enough, party men at the state level as well as those in Washington, D.C. remembered Steelworker McCarthy. This week, upon appointment by the President, Ed McCarthy, 47, quit his $5,000-a-year job at the plant and was sworn in as the $7,500-a-year Marshal of the Federal District Court, Rhode Island...
...mood for a last hurrah, Boston's former mayor and silver-voiced Prince of Blarney, James M. Curley, 82, was no sooner sworn in as a member of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission than he learned that his son George, 38, once Boston director of public celebrations, had surrendered to Morris County, N.J. police, charged with impairing the morals of two male minors...
...Sworn in last week as the junior U.S. Senator from Wisconsin: Edward William Proxmire...
...article that filled half of Pravda and was broadcast lengthily over Radio Moscow, the corn-belt commissar cockily sounded off on art, literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back, but with great skill made...
...while Frankie was at Columbia (Miller produced statistics in an effort to disprove the charge). In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded. Sinatra quoted Miller's words from sworn testimony: "Bob Merrill [responsible for If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd 've Baked a Cake and other hit tunes] would bring all the songs to me first. After the songs were a hit I got a check from his royalties to me. It amounted...