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...drop the censure count against McCarthy for his abuse of Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker. In its place went a condemnation section against Joe for his "Communist handmaiden'' and "lynch bee" sneers. At last came the final vote, on which Democrats voted solidly for censure and Republicans split evenly...
...unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint in his brown, curious eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing in Switzerland, bullfighting in Spain, walking battlefronts and hiking uncounted miles of African safari. On his lap he held a board, and he bent over it with a pencil in one hand. He was still whittling away...
During the splendorous presentation ceremony in big, drafty Westminster Hall last week, Parliament got its first look at the portrait it had commissioned as an 80th birthday gift for Sir Winston Churchill. The reaction was immediate, vehement, and split right down the middle of the aisle. "It's disgusting, ill-mannered," said Lord Hailsham. "A beautiful work, wonderful!" countered Nye Bevan. Privately the Prime Minister-whose distaste for modern art is well known-reportedly muttered: "It makes me look half-witted which I ain't." At the birthday ceremony he commented wryly: "The portrait is a remarkable example...
Bread & Water. Addington tracked down parents of the boys, found one father who said that guards had tied his son to a carpenter's sawhorse while they whipped him with straps. Another parent said that her boy had been whipped with a fan belt split at the end. Addington paid a surprise visit to the reformatory, demanded that Superintendent Jaffa Miller show him the jail, where he had been told that boys were kept on bread and water for days at a stretch. The jail proved to be filthy, airless cells, one containing three emaciated teen-agers stripped...
...elected to the board at the annual shareholders' meeting next April, said Wolfson, his first proposal would be a 3-for-1 stock split. He would also hire five new vice presidents and a president, whom he described as "one of the country's top merchandisers." For the new officers there would be stock options of 5,000 shares each (10,000 for the president); they would put up 10% of the cost and Ward's would finance the rest, permit the officers to pay for the stock over a certain period. He also described a plan...