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...seven-page explanation of his committee's findings, including the censure recommendation (one of two) for McCarthy's having called New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson a "living miracle without brains or guts." When McCarthy heard the quote, he grinned, went over to slap Hendrickson on the back, and whispered: "Bob, you've got both brains and guts, and I'll put it in writing." But McCarthy would make no public apology...
Slush & Slime. All week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...
...this implied slap at McCarthy, St. Clair said that "the Defense Department had the better method of exposing security risks." The Senators should limit their investigations, to those that are actual bases for law-making, he added...
...heads bowed in silence. "Thy will be done . . . Thy will be done . . ." prayed Chaplain Von Norman to himself. Two minutes later, while the burning plane banked, he stood at the open door and began sending the sky pilots off into the air, one by one, with a slap on the rear and an occasional shove...
...come to be associated with eggbeater boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves against the bow. Vibration was cut sharply...