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...clerktypist ($1,765 a year) in the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York while he champed around waiting to turn 21 so he could be admitted to the bar. On the day he was admitted-May 27, 1948-he was sworn in as an assistant U.S. attorney ($3,397 a year), He soon became a specialist in subversive activities, performing ably and energetically as a staff lawyer on such cases as the William Remington perjury trial, the Rosenberg trial and the big New York trial of top Communist leaders. He had also given auspicious...
...first day on the job was memorable because: 1) he was ceremoniously sworn in right in the Attorney General's private office (actually no new oath was necessary ); 2) after one departmental press release announced his coming but neglected to mention his title, a second was issued to correct the oversight; 3) three Department of Justice juniors were evicted from their office so it could become Roy's private office; 4) he demanded a private cable address (denied) and a private telephone line to his old office in New York (also denied...
Pearl Harper is barely five; too young to know more than that her rag doll is stuffed with green paper. John is nine; he knows what the paper is, and has sworn to his dad, just before the capture, not to give away the secret...
...ridden husband. Crooner Dick Haymes, by Dick's creditors began to resemble the chase sequence in a grade B western. Earlier this month Dick and Rita barricaded themselves in a Manhattan ho tel suite, while outside two deputy sheriffs waited to serve Dick with an alimony arrears warrant sworn out by his second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru. Last week in Greenwich, Conn., more sheriff's men, took up a vigil in the 14-room furnished mansion Haymes had rented. This time, Rita and groom were charged by their landlord with being $675 behind on the rent, plus...
...cleared" that by we his were letter not, to in us. any The legal commit sense, tee, as we understand it, is not set up with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde was a letter to the effect that a sworn affidavit which we had voluntarily provided, because we wanted to straighten out once for all any ambiguities about certain tenuous "affiliations" of years past, was acceptable to the completion of committee the as a record . . "clarification." Again, to say that we personally received a citation from the California American Legion...