Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tight Spot. McCloy has learned to gauge how far people can be pushed, to hold out in good humor but dogged firmness through protracted debate. He has a flair for the right word in a tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
...family vacations at Ausable Lakes in the Adirondacks, he is indefatigable. He rises to fish at 4 a.m., drags his family on walks up Iron Mountain. "After a hike with him," says chestnut-haired Ellen McCloy, "we all come home on our hands and knees." The McCloy family circle, in the yellow brick Georgetown house, includes Grandmother Anna McCloy, now 83, young John, 11, Ellen, 7, a droopy-eared beagle named Judy and an affectionate boxer named Punch...
...McCloy never drinks coffee or tea, takes only an occasional social Scotch & soda. He likes cigars, which his wife bans at home, and chocolate drops, which he also nibbles in his office. He reads incessantly, even props a book before him as he shaves, always carries an Oxford Book of Verse on his travels, collects volumes on fishing* and military science, stages reading debates with himself-i.e., follows simultaneously three or four books on the same subject but with different slants...
Toward Frankfurt. Comments on McCloy's appointment as U.S. High Commissioner in Germany last week came from varied sources but were monotonous in content. George Marshall, Robert Lovett, Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, British Socialist Hugh Dalton, all said, in effect: "They couldn't have picked a better man." Some of McCIoy's friends, however, were sorry he took the job. McCloy knows it's tough. "No doubt about it," he said last week, "it's going to be a windy corner...
...McCloy will not have to "run" part of Germany, as General Clay did. The Germans will do that under the new West German constitution. McCloy's job is to see that the Germans do not transgress their constitution or the broad policies of the occupying powers. If they do, he and the British and French High Commissioners will have to step in and set the Germans on the right path...