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This sort of thing-and McFarland's strong showing in the primary last fortnight-had Arizonans giving Folksy Mac the edge. But it was, after all, a personality contest, the kind of competition Barry Goldwater likes. "I have to get 90% of the Republican vote and 30% of the Democrat." said Barry Goldwater, reckoning his chances in a state where Democrats lead in registration 2½ to 1, "and I think...
PUSEY: "Thanks, Mac...
Among the Maryland delegates introduced to Candidate Dwight Eisenhower at the 1952 G.O.P. convention was Johns Hopkins University Professor Malcolm Moos. "Professor of what?" asked Ike, shaking hands. "Political science," responded bony (5 ft. 10 in., 130 Ibs.), "Mac" Moos. "Well," said Ike, "I am going to be one of your first students." Last week the student hired the professor as chief presidential speechwriter...
...onetime Minnesota Republican state chairman who revered Teddy Roosevelt, Mac Moos, 42, lightly labels himself "a full-blooded Bull Moose Republican," is an energetic mixture of egghead author and practical politician. While writing a history of the Republican Party, he worked up to Republican Party chief in Baltimore, later helped out the White House speechwriting team on a part-time basis. In one sense, he has a running start on Eisenhower as far as the 1958 congressional campaign is concerned: the principal point of his Politics, Presidents and Coattails, published in 1952, was that a President cannot easily transfer...
...Review ran in advance a big chunk of Beat Generation Novelist Jack Kerouac's On the Road, printed the first short stories of Playwright James (Blue Denim) Herlihy and Mac (No Time for Sergeants) Hyman. Their office was a back room in the office of a Paris publisher, who locked the front door after 6:30 p.m., forcing Review's editors and visiting writers to depart by dropping six feet from a side window into a stone courtyard below. Unlike its austerely printed rivals, Review early decided to print drawings and illustrate its stories, enlisted as art editor...