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Eight Republicans, who had asked Administration witnesses some thorny questions during the hearings, this week released a 52-page report giving their conclusions. The signers were New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, New Jersey's Alexander Smith, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, California's William Knowland, Washington's Harry P. Cain, Maine's Owen Brewster and Vermont's Ralph Flanders. Their findings...
...delegate to the Republican Washington state conventions of '46 and '48, I feel compelled to say this: the Republican Party, as represented by Taft, Wiley, Smith, Hickenlooper, Cain, McCarthy, Martin, "Bertie" McCormick and Hearst, is on mighty thin ice. The weight of sound logic lies with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.N. and Truman...
...dressing room of Antwerp's Sportpalais, Trainer Harry ("Papa") Wiley had unpacked the bag, spread a clean linen sheet over the rubbing table, laid out the clean woolen socks, the purple trunks, the boxing shoes with new laces. Robinson gave one dour look at the preparations and grumbled: "It's cold here...
Fight week or not, Robinson and Papa Wiley are up each morning at 6 a.m., to pound out four to six miles of roadwork along the shady bridle paths of the Bois de Boulogne. Three times a week Sugar's gaudy Cadillac winds into a narrow courtyard off the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis for a 3 p.m. workout in the Central Sporting Club, where Sugar gets seriously down to work: three minutes of shadow boxing; six rounds of boxing, two with each of three sparring partners; three minutes with the body bag, and three with the light punching...
Tired and frustrated, Republicans quarreled among themselves. Observed New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "There is an injunction in the Scriptures: 'Avoid vain repetition.' I wish you would all remember it." Snapped Wiley: "I suppose I should accept it graciously coming from my good friend Senator Tobey. But I think he should avoid assuming the right to lecture constantly us who have been here...