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...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...
George had a loud singing voice when he was a child. At eight, he was using it in church choirs around Chicago. When he finished Roosevelt High School ("I was voted most likely to dissolve"), he got started in radio as a singer and guitarist on barn dance shows and managed to keep busy as a vocalist at weddings and bazaars. He even had some acting jobs on radio, but they were only bit parts. On the Tom Mix Show, for instance, Gobel was always the boy who said plaintively, "I'll hold your horse...
STATE and local political organizations generally work harder to elect a governor than a Congressman, and for good reason. A governor can dispense far more patronage, let more contracts and do more favors than can any U.S. Congressman or Senator, a fact that leads to the philosophy: "Protect the barn-the hell with the com fields." In last week's elections the Democratic Party did much better than the G.O.P in protecting the barn. The Democrats elected governors in seven states that had been controlled by the G.O.P.: Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico (they...
...seeking the advantages of membership in Harvard's branches of the services expect certain uncivilian demands, such as compulsory saluting and drilling, the certificate represents no great imposition. But following McCarthy's loud and irresponsible charges, this type of security measure smacks mostly of kow-towing and closing the barn door after the Peress has gotten...
...spiels which Hawker Mastin spouted when he showed his pictures were found with them in an old barn. His notes for a running commentary to General Putnam's leap...