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This was too much for members of the investigating subcommittee. Its members, thanks largely to the stern and judicial guidance of North Carolina's frock-coated old Clyde Hoey, had conducted themselves with rare restraint. They immediately released all secret testimony concerning Vaughan...
...asserted that the deep freezers he wangled for himself and friends were unsalable "factory rejects." Testimony taken in closed sessions established that this simply wasn't so. The closed sessions also turned up a few more details about Albert Verley & Co., the Chicago perfume makers that gave Vaughan the seven deep freezers...
...developed that Vaughan's crony, John Maragon, and two other representatives of the Verley Co. had managed to go to Europe on a business trip, during the period in which the freezers were being delivered, in an Army transport plane. The subcommittee's releases pointedly noted that on the return trip Maragon had attempted to smuggle expensive perfume oils into the country under his false declaration that it was champagne for the White House, and had never been prosecuted...
This final cascade of testimony made it more difficult than ever to imagine just what Harry Vaughan would have to say when he himself testified. But Washington politicos and thousands of plain citizens could hardly wait to find...
...Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Eloquent and powerful, this war-written symphony by the dean of English composers is one of this century's greatest. Performance and recording: good...