THE CONGRESS: Busy Man

In Washington last week, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy was busier than a terrier in a cow barn. Wherever there was news, there was Joe.

McCarthy the investigator took his place in the Senate hearing room where the Hoey subcommittee, of which he is a member, grilled Bill Boyle. McCarthy was stern with witnesses. "Don't be coy with me," he snapped at Boyle's friend Max Siskind. But in mid-session, McCarthy had to leave. "I happen to be testifying myself," he explained.

McCarthy the Witness. McCarthy was off to a downtown law office, where he was giving a pretrial deposition in the libel...

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