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...Republican label can be stuck on very tightly when, by intention or through ignorance, he is doing his best to shatter the party whose label he wears. He no longer claims or wants any support from the Communist fringe. What is his party affiliation? One must conclude that his is a one-man party and that its name is McCarthyism, a title which he has proudly accepted...
...Hardest Blow. At the President's further urging, the Republican policy committee of the Senate brought out suggestions for changes in committee rules, designed to restrict McCarthy's reckless hunt for headlines. The changes-chiefly designed to prevent McCarthy from conducting one-man hearings-might not be enough to hold him in line, but they were important because they showed the attitude of the responsible Republican leadership. Sound, clear, public voice was given to that attitude by Vermont's Republican Ralph Flanders in a speech on the Senate floor (see Col. 2) and by Pres ident Eisenhower...
...proved that Joe McCarthy stood pinpointed as never before in his public life. Nobody was challenging his rights as a Senator. Nobody was attacking his license to hunt Communists. But the Army, in taking aim, could not have been more menacing. It had drawn a careful bead on the one-man subcommittee's real brain, the precocious, brilliant, arrogant young man whom McCarthy had come to regard as indispensable-"as indispensable." said Joe, "as I am." And Roy Cohn, thanks to a lifetime process of self-inflation, presented a lovely target...
...love with Mike Lambert, a newspaperman who takes a drop too much and whose best jobs are all behind him. Fanny and Mike are good people, but their open affair enrages the bluenoses, and makes more than one dissatisfied man hope that Fanny isn't just a one-man woman. Meanwhile, Mike values Fanny, but values his bottle at least as much, his lively cynicism and irresponsibility even more...
Flanders last night, in acknowledging the H.Y.R.C.'s invitation, stated that the "one-man party" of McCarthyism has "a good deal of vitality within a radius of 400 miles of Chicago...