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Show Sen. Vatkins Is Praised In McCarthy Probe Senator Wiatkins, of Utah, according ac-cording to Beverly Smith, "gives an impression of fnailtty, whlioh -is misleading." The Washington editor of The Saturday Evening Post gives a heart-wanning report of Senator Watkins' role as Chiraliman of the McCarthy cen-sure-eoimimiiittee, in the November Novem-ber lStih issue now on the nation's na-tion's newsstands. "Siomeone had to' head the coimimittee that sat in judgment on the- conduct of obsitheperous Joe McCarthy. Slo the Senate plicked on one of its gentlest, milldfestt mlainnered members wlhite-hiaired Watkins of Utah. There upon Senator Wiatkins revealed re-vealed hfis .unsuspected hard-boiled hard-boiled side, in 'The Job No Senator Sen-ator Wanted'." The aulthior chose "The Job No Senator Wanted" as the title of his , feature-length article, ar-ticle, accompanied by several photographs and in which he gives a biography of the Senator. Sen-ator. "Arthur Vivian Watkins, who is said by the family to take after grandpa, was born on a smiall farm near Midway, Utah," the Post article reveals. "At Brigham Young University, Universi-ty, where Arthur arrived full of zeal, but without an overcoat over-coat to shield him from the below be-low zero winters, he staged one of his early surprises. Though Obviously too small and spare for basketball, he went out for it, and won himself a place on BYU's famous championship team. The coach of that team, Dr. Warren A. Colton, still likes to recall Watkins' speed, accuracy and fearlessnesss as a forward." "All patriotic Americans are proud of the Constitution. Watkins Wat-kins goes further; in his belief, the document has a religious sanction. Part of - his church's faith, shared by the Senator, is that the American Constitution was divinely inspired. He believes be-lieves a Senator wfalo treats the Senate or one of its committees commit-tees with ridicule or contempt is hurting the very Constitution which he is sworn to defend;" relates the author in a history of Senator Watkins' religtous background. |