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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week McCarthy started out again. Before he begged off for the day, pleading that he had to get the rest of his data together, he ticked off a handful of State Department employees past & present whose records he thought worth investigating. Of those still at work in State, the biggest name in the net was not exactly king-sized: Haldore Hanson, 37, who handles cultural jobs for the department, and technical work under the Point Four program. Hanson, said McCarthy, was guilty of "proCommunist activities," and hero-worshiped Chinese Communist Boss Mao from his days as a correspondent...
...spite of Abd el Krim's blusterings, a major North African revolt was unlikely. The voice from the past was mainly a reminder of happier days when the word "war" called up romanticized pictures of the French Foreign Legion, rather than nuclear horrors...
...Post played up his findings in a six-part series last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...
Last week plump, 25-year-old Maggie Whiting herself was one of the big names in popular music. Her recording of Slipping Around, made with Western Singer Jimmy Wakely, was Capitol Records' top seller for the past year (1,750,000 copies). Billboard announced that next to Evelyn (A Little Bird Told Me) Knight, Maggie was queen of the jukeboxes...
...Warm Spot. In the past five years Margaret's sing-it-to-me has lifted her income into the $200,000-a-year class, and many a song (It Might as Well Be Spring, A Tree in the Meadow, Faraway Places) on to the hit parade. She has helped bring back the vogue for tandem singing by doubling with Wakely, Jack Smith, Bob Hope and Bandleader Frank DeVol. Says Los Angeles Disc Jockey Gene Norman: "Margaret could sing a duet with a talking horse and make him sound good...