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...Army report that they had been anticipating for days. While they talked, newsservice teletypes were clacking out, for the morning papers, the Army's sensational charge: Roy Cohn had threatened to "wreck the Army" in an attempt to get special treatment for one Private G. David Schine. Cohn's close friend and erstwhile colleague on the McCarthy committee staff. The inference was strong that much of the Army's recent trouble with the McCarthy committee (TIME, March 8) had come about because the Army refused to knuckle under to Counsel Cohn on behalf of Private Schine...
...Tribune has since turned McCarthy's human flaws into padded infallibility. Playing down or ignoring all recent attacks, it brought McCarthy into the Schine affair unchallenged, Under Saturday's banner headline, columnist Willard Edwards again forgot the Senator's critics. He began, "Army Secretary Stevens was accused by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.) today of attempting to kill an investigation of communism in the army by suggesting that McCarthy 'go after the navy, the airforce, and the defense department'." Referring to this as a "disclosure," Edwards punched on down a column sprinkled with pressure words like "revealed" or documentary exhibit...
Sunday's ratio was about the same, and the reporting no more accurate. In summing up the files McCarthy released, the Tribune said, ". . . some members of McCarthy's staff believed Schine would never have been drafted into the army except that 'extreme left wing writers' started 'screaming about his case'." The file cited said nothing of the draft, but deplored Schine's status quo as a private...
...reporting to date, the Tribune has neither expanded its two-sentence coverage of the army report, nor alluded to Congressional attacks on McCarthy and Cohn. Saturday's column ended with authoritative optimism: "The conflicting versions of the Cohn-Schine affair and the revelations of the army 'cover-up' attempt stirred Capitol Hill and the Pentagon as no incident in recent years. A campaign to oust Cohn had boomeranged, it was agreed, and heads would fall in the defense department." And so, with crossed fingers or back page coverage, the Tribune will bury the Schine affair...
...matches held, John Lane of Adams gave the outstanding performance in winning his 157-pound bout. Another Gold Coast wrestler, Ezra Ingalls, looked good in his victories over Peter McKinney of Dunster and C. R. Schine of Lowell in the 177-pound division...