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When the Forrestal statement was printed last week in the newspapers, Wallace published a scorching denial. "This is a lie," he wrote. "I said under oath [in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950] that there was a leaking liar in the Cabinet and the President agreed ... I do not wish to quarrel with a dead man or his widow and children. Their husband and father wished very much to see me a few months before he died . . . Undoubtedly at that time he was trying to set his spiritual house in order. May God rest...
...running such expose articles for over a year now. One of the first was "That Man Budenz" in the November 1950 issue, describing the virtues of professional ex-Communist Louis Budenz. Unfortunately columnist Joseph Alsop has just turned up evidence showing Budenz to be little less than an outright liar under oath...
...much of it that last week he had it framed and hung on the wall. The first half was a parody on the Alsops' country-club-voice-of-doom style and their long battle against ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. The column's title: JOHNSON IS A LIAR BUT ON THE OTHER HAND . . . Wrote Krock...
...report of this, the first successful Caesarean operation in the U.S. For, said he, other doctors would never believe that a woman could survive this hazardous operation, done in the backwoods of Virginia, and he was "damned if he'd give them a chance to call him a liar...
...U.S.S. Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that...