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...Blame Me (Sarah Vaughan; M-G-M). Sarah gambols over the scale in what sounds like a big try to avoid the melody at all costs. When she does run into melody, she gives it a velvet ride...
...asked him to be an investigator for Truman's war contracts investigating committee. As others recall it, Boyle was desperate, and Harry Truman put him on as a sort of personal aide, at $350 a month. In 1942, Truman's old Missouri crony and secretary, Harry Vaughan, went off to the Army, and the Senator gave Vaughan's job to Boyle. Bill became a specialist on the boss's political problems, and in 1944 moved over to the Democratic National Committee to try to help Truman get the vice-presidential nomination. He got it. Bill Boyle...
...less than 1% of federal employees have been in any way involved in charges. The civil service has never been cleaner, never enjoyed a better reputation. The trouble is that so many of the scandals have struck so close to the top: Truman himself and the Deep Freezers, Harry Vaughan and his friends among the five-percenters, three district Collectors of Internal Revenue appointed by the President, a mink coat to a White House stenographer, a camera to a presidential secretary, and then the story of Bill Boyle...
When his tutor died of a heart attack in 1946, the lonely King sought other companions. His choices were strange. One was a short, baldheaded Lebanese journalist named Kareem Tabet, who is now the King's press counselor and confidant, has been described as Egypt's Harry Vaughan. Another of the King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court...
...embassy, the Dominican Republic's ambassador, Dr. Luis Thomen, pinned his country's Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (highest decoration given a foreigner) on Major General Anthony C. ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne. On hand to get the same medal (his tenth foreign decoration): Major General Harry Vaughan, for "outstanding service to humanity . . . a staunch defender of the lofty ideals of western civilization...