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...Just Sit By Me." Although McCormack is extraordinarily thin-skinned himself, he can and does dish it out with one of the House's roughest tongues. Once, in the middle of a formal debate, he bluntly called Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana a "damned fool," and was required to retract his words. Again, in a 1953 argument with Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high...
...Earl Wilson, columnist for the New York Post, mentioned the Penguin in his column recently, calling it "a new Harvard dance gaining in popularity." He said it was evidently the latest product of the twist craze...
...born in Wilton Junction, Iowa. He was about to go to the University of Michigan when he developed eye trouble and went instead to Los Angeles, where he drove a horse-drawn lumber wagon. Soon he began studying law at U.S.C. and clerking in the office of Earl Rogers, a flamboyant attorney who was a kind of Edwardian Giesler. Rogers nicknamed him Jerry, and the young attorney got some of his first courtroom experience helping Rogers successfully defend Clarence Darrow against a charge of bribing jurors...
Haiti exemplifies the dilemma of the Alliance, and illustrates the real applicability of the Cuban example. If it is too late to heed the advice of Earl E. T. Smith and Arthur Gardner, two former Ambassadors to Cuba who urged that his country help its "good friend" Batista, restitution is being made in Haiti. There, U.S. support of Duvalier props up a hated dictatorship, suppressing five million people by secret-police terror and open violence. Duvalier has ignored the Constitution and dispensed with free elections. Still, one-third of his budget comes from the United States, and his personal army...