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...favorite McCarthy victim these days is Gustavo Duran. Joe flourishes a picture of Duran taken during the Spanish Civil War in what he says is "the uniform of the S.I.M.-the counterpart of the Russian secret police." He then says that Duran's American citizenship was rushed through, that he was "promoted" by the State Department to the U.N. in 1946. "And what do you think he was doing there today? Unbelievable as it is, his task was to screen displaced persons and decide which would make good, loyal Americans...
Foreign Uniform. For his coup de grace, McCarthy pulled out of his bag a life-size photograph of a man in a foreign military uniform. This he identified as one Gustavo Duran, who once held a "top job" in the State Department (aide to Latin American Expert Spruille Braden, 1943-46), and now works for the United Nations Secretariat. The blur of McCarthy rhetoric implied that Duran had been a member of the Russian secret police in Europe, and his photograph was right there to prove it. (What Joe actually said was: Duran was head of something called "S.I.M...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...
...wonderfully mobile face and his incredible sense of timing are still his main stock in trade. His best performances in "On the Riviera" are a clever dance-pantomime song about "Popo the Puppet," a series of doubles entendres with Miss Tierney, and the airport reception for Capitaine Henri Duran...
...Duran-Reynals is right-but he is talking about hyaluronidase injected into the body, and TIME'S report was on hyaluronidase created by the body itself...