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...eight weeks in a Capitol hearing room and asked questions were far from unified in their conclusions about why General Douglas MacArthur was dismissed, what should be done next in Korea, or how much the U.S. had been to blame for Communism's advances in Asia. The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words-more than twice the wordage of the Bible...
Wayland has received inquiries from Negroes before, but not until Miss Annie sent a transcript of her record did the college find one who was academically qualified. Like other Southern colleges, Wayland might well have waited until the courts ordered an end to racial restrictions. But one day before the spring term ended, Wayland's president, Dr. J. W. ("Bill") Marshall, called faculty and students away from final exams, asked them to vote on Miss Annie's application. No faculty members, and only nine out of 274 students, had any objection...
...doors that have been barred, we are unlocking secrets that have been protected in steel safes," said Chairman Russell. "I have lain awake at night. Even the public record has carried some material which strikes me as dangerous." The censor's blue pencil had struck from the public transcript about 2,800 of MacArthur's words, some 6,600 of Marshall...
...leads on snippets of information from the caucus room's white-haired Doorkeeper Gus Cook-mostly reports on who was talking and how many times MacArthur had lighted his pipe. But just 50 minutes later, newsmen got a pleasant surprise: the first pages of the censored transcript began to come through. Stenographers sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators. They quickly turned out copies for 56 papers and news agencies (including Russia...
Find a Leak. Going beyond the transcript, newsmen kept on the alert to score beats from "leaks." The first big leak came, inadvertently, from General MacArthur himself. As he walked into the room, the general was overheard telling Senators that the White House had assured him that "there would be no stenographers present" at his Wake Island conference with Harry Truman...