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...people see?" trumpeted Senator Charles Tobey in the first flush of satisfaction over the televised Kefauver hearings. With equal enthusiasm, Manhattan's Congressman Jacob Javits wanted TV to sit in on major congressional debates just as it does on U.N. sessions, argued that it would be essentially no different from "expanding the size of the gallery of the House." Representative Edwin Hall (N.Y.) urged that all sessions of Congress be televised...
Television thus magnifies the abuses which are already prevalent in Congressional committee investigations. The drama of watching folksy moralist Tobey struggle with "Greasy Thumb" Gusik entertains the public and attracts a large audience, but this is not the purpose of such an investigation. These hearing are held to get the facts--impartially, fairly, and with a minimum of showmanship. Until Congress can settle on a Fair Practices Code for these investigations, they should not be televised...
...H.Y.R.C. also passed a resolution commending Senators Fulbright, Tobey, Kofauver, Wiley, and O'Connor for their work in exposing crime throughout the United States. The junior G.O.P.ers also favored more telecasting of Congressional hearings to make the public more aware of crime in politics...
...Tobey's paintings appeal primarily to a tight circle of cognoscenti, but the man himself perfectly fills the popular picture of an artist. His leonine head is half snowed under by his untidy white hair; he drapes his bulky frame in handsome Harris tweeds, wears a carelessly slung scarf and paint-splashed shoes. Sympathetic or not, questions about his art generally draw an amiable response. "I can't understand doctors or lawyers," he says. "Why the hell should anyone understand...
...Senator Tobey of New Hampshire...