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...leave of absence and signed up with the Marines. McCarthy's war record was good but not spectacular, and he has made the most of it. He shipped overseas as an intelligence officer with a scout-bombing squadron. Nearly ten years older than most of his squadron, "Father Mac" was very popular, always scrounging beer and extra food for his unit, organizing sports, starting bull sessions. Joe volunteered to defend enlisted men, and boasts of how many courts-martial he beat for his clients...
Reason: The MacArthur firing and the MacArthur hearings have moved Washington toward a more decisive policy. The Rashin raid could be interpreted by the stalling Chinese only as a taste of Mac-Arthur policy-a pointed hint that if the truce talks fail, the U.S. will no longer play by the old confining ground rules...
Pastor McBirnie ("Brother Mac" to his congregation) left the well-established South Fort Worth Baptist Church (membership: 1,000) to join Trinity Baptist's founders before they had so much as a place to worship. He is glad he came; so is his congregation. Said he last week: "I caught the vision and enthusiasm of these people. I knew they meant it when they said they were building one of the great churches of the South...
...most audacious opponent of Franco inside Spain, Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent...
Douglas MacArthur clapped on his faded, braided cap and, with Mrs. Mac-Arthur, strode aboard the special train waiting on the presidential siding under Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The big electric engine whined out toward Boston, just ten minutes behind a pilot train which gave the rails the kind of last-minute going-over usually reserved for Presidents. From his private car, the general caught glimpses of fluttering flags and handkerchiefs as he clipped through commuter stations along the way. Boston turned out in midafternoon to greet him as though he were just home from the wars...