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...Illinois last year, not much was expected of him. The 39-year-old politician with a pompadour and an adolescent voice seemed unlikely to fill Adlai Stevenson's shoes. The liberals labeled Stratton a reactionary. Even the old pols in his own party looked upon him as an upstart, and some of them had an uncomplimentary nickname for him: "Billy...
...Chicago, a center of the U.S. television industry, old hands catalogued brash, upstart young Earl W. (for William) Muntz as merely another California screwball when he invaded their city and their business four years ago. They knew that "Madman" Muntz's zany advertising, depicting himself as a lunatic in a Napoleon hat ("I buy 'em retail, sell 'em wholesale. More fun that way!") had made him the used-car king of Los Angeles. But they assumed that the tough TV business would soon drive him really crazy...
With the British, especially, McCarthyism is an obsession-& delightful, self-flattering obsession that salves the bruised British ego with the balm of moral supertority to the upstart Americans. The more McCarthyism can be exaggerated in its evil or its power, the more it fascinates the British...
Only one Nationalist a tried to stop the tide. Campaigning on the sole plank that the Nacionalista nomination should not go to an upstart so fresh from the opposition Liberals, old Senator Camilo Osias, respected educator and a party man for 40 years, pleaded for the nomination...
...Progressive Party disintegrated, and La Follette returned to a hostile Republican fold. A few months later, after 21 years, he was unseated by an upstart named Joe McCarthy. He had been too absorbed in his work on the Congressional Reorganization Act to go home and campaign until ten days before the primary. "I didn't go back to talk to the voters," he said ruefully. "My father did just what Joe McCarthy did [to win], and I guess I made a mistake." After that, Young Bob never again answered the call of politics or insurgency. He stayed in Washington...