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Some top Republicans, including Party Chairman Leonard Hall and Senate Leader William Knowland, stepped in to say that McCarthy should get off the committee and should not cross-examine wit nesses. Hall had swerved sharply from his attitude of two months ago when he said that McCarthy was a Republican "asset" who should have the party's endorsement...
Boring & Sound. The pale young man with the donnish air was no overnight success. His speeches-meticulously prepared, subtly reasoned, peppered with quiet wit-bored the House. But the ability to bore is rather well regarded in the House of Commons as a sign of soundness. Rab turned from oratory to committee and administrative work to prove his soundness. He was cautious, he was courteous, he never spoke out of turn, he never spoke unless well prepared. His voice was as clear as his logic. "The bullyboys may make the headlines," said a colleague, "but it is to the young...
Your story . . . contained one of the most fascinating sentences of the year, to wit: "As he [McCarthy] said it, he playfully kicked a reporter under the table." Can you tell us more? How did the reporter respond to this cavalier treatment...
Cleland's wit often turns on himself...
Novelist Masters keeps his melodrama going at top speed with a terrorist plot, an attempted rape, a murder and plenty of political intrigue and skulduggery, and he handles it all with wit and intelligence. Though he does not go to the heart of his characters, at least he manages to get under their skins. But he is at his best when he catches the pathos of his eight-anna heroine and her half-caste lover, human beings who do not belong because the color of their skin is a shade too dark...