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...representing ten A.P. newspapers. Langer always introduced him as "the reporter from the Fargo Forum [an anti-Langer paper] who follows me around to write lies about me . . . Stand up and let them see what your kind of man looks like." Back in the car, Langer would chuckle: "Well, Mac, how many votes did you make for me tonight...
...Last week Eichelberger offered a comment on his old chief's hostility to Eisenhower. He said he knew "at first hand" that MacArthur wanted to run for President in 1944 and again in 1948 and that he had hoped for Eisenhower's support. In return, he said, Mac was willing to back Ike for President in 1952. Said Eichelberger: "If General MacArthur felt that General Eisenhower was qualified [then], he should feel [that Ike is] even more qualified after his fine work as commander of NATO...
...Congratulations on your May 26 reporting of MacArthur's slur at generals in the White House ... I never cease to marvel at the many facets of the MacArthur personality, but this one really takes the cake. What makes Mac think he is an exception to the old political axiom-that generals make poor presidents? It smacks of an inflated ego, plus a childish fit of pique, i.e., "if I can't have it, neither...
...Unitarian Association. When he took over the presidency of Reed College in 1948, he firmly announced that he would serve only pro tempore. "I am a businessman," said he. "Any time you find an academic man qualified, I'll step aside." Last week, at a sprightly 71, "Mr. Mac" did step aside. The academic man who takes his place: Duncan Smith Ballantine, 40, associate professor of history at M.I.T...
...Mac has succeeded in pulling Reed out of the red, but he has never quite finished the job of pulling its reputation out of the pink. That, says he, will be something for the academic man from Cambridge to do -"And I say to him: snap to it, brother...