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...lively show. Robert T. Stevens. Secretary of the Army, was the principal witness of the first week. Stevens, a topflight businessman, found himself snarled in a dirty little fight where the fate of an Army private named G. David Schine and the fate of a New York dentist named Irving Peress somehow became high affairs of state. Senator McCarthy, ever the showman, gave televiewers their time's worth. A new character. Ray Jenkins, the committee's trap-jawed counsel, brought to the screen the forensic flamboyance of a Southern trial lawyer...
...marked by a white name card. He studiedly ignored Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, seated only a few feet away, supported in depth by star-studded Army officers. Between McCarthy and Stevens lay an unseen mountain of bitterness rising from the drafting into the Army of G. David Schine. the golden boy who became an unpaid consultant to McCarthy's committee. To judge the charges and countercharges, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee met last week in the marbled caucus room of the Senate Office Building...
...discussing the investigatory duties of a committee counsel, Halley also defended the controversial trip to Europe made last year by Roy M. Cohn and G. David Schine, two principals in the current hearings...
...began bluntly: "The Department of the Army alleges that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy as Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations . . . and its chief counsel, R. M. Cohn, as well as other members of its staff, sought by improper means to obtain preferential treatment for one Pvt. G. David Schine." It repeated much of the story told last month in the Army's report on favor-seeking for Private Gerard David Schine and added a few new incidents. It grouped the Army's charges into 29 parts, which added up to an imposing portfolio of incidents and sequences...
...individuals are "rare." Navy Secretary Robert Anderson, reflecting the view of the three services, said he knew of no case in which a Congressman "has persisted in a request for action . . . which in equity and good conscience could not be done." Said Secretary Stevens: "The case involving Private Schine is an exception...