GOVERNMENT: Mr. Lev Goes to Washington

The U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations gets the best shows in the business. A year ago, while all the nation watched, the Army-McCarthy extravaganza played before it. Last week it had Harry Lev.

Lev is a millionaire businessman from Chicago—a capmaker. The Senators were trying to find out just what it was that caused his remarkable success in getting lush cap contracts from the Armed Services textile procurement office. Ohio's Senator George Bender suspected that the half-ton of smoked sturgeon that Lev had given to 38 procurement office employees might have helped—might, in fact, have been bribes. Astonished,...

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