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First, let's not do another cover on the McCarthy man. The last one looked like Rocky Marciano, or something. Liked the idea of roasting the old boy, but maybe we let him off too easy. Take the piece about the janitor and Senator Mac Venner. That could have been a pretty funny situation, but somehow it turned into a Ray Bradbury science fiction with everything from flying saucers to atomic cocktails. I think we might have missed an opportunity to really blast those damn investigations...
...such sharpshooter is debonair Kurt Bader, 36, an ingenious German whose flair for showmanship unhappily surpasses his marksmanship. With his wife Hildegard, Kurt billed his show as "Aal Cherry & Mac Zero, the World-Famous Sharpshooting Act." His act involved a machine like an egg beater, across which pretty little Mac, arrayed in shorts and bra, could be tastefully spread-eagled and rotated as a "human windmill." Last week, after putting their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped...
...stage lights dimmed, drums rolled and a red spotlight played on Mac as Aal raised his rifle that night last week. Crack -and one ball was down; crack-and nothing happened. Would Aal go on after missing with one shot? He did. The third ball fell, and the audience sighed its relief. When the fourth ball dropped, the audience was roaring applause. Then the fifth shot rang out, and again no ball fell...
...Mac's bare body twitched, then slowly, very slowly, crumpled and fell to the floor. There was a tiny black hole in her temple...
...During the campaign, both candidates made use of ghosts. Some of Stevenson's: Herbert Agar, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Archibald Mac-Leish, Bernard DeVoto. Samuel Rosenman. James Wechsler. Some of Eisenhower's: Stanley High, Gabriel Hauge, C. D. Jackson, Emmet Hughes...