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icCarthy Set a ‘Heady Mixture’ ' Sen. Joseph R.. McCarthy (R-,of hardworking political bosses|for many men who deserved or | Wis.) has become the stormy land reportorial sleuths; of hot-|aspired to the Presidency. But ie of ‘one of the mest in-|shot investigators and radioj|McCarthy is not satisfied stand-|* fh . teresting and powerful political|stars; of Wisconsin politicos andj ing still... If he can’t be Presi- rich horsewomen; of market/dent, he can become a great ton," ‘t is pointed out in (he cur-|plungers and solid industrialists.|power, for better or worse, in -Fent issue of Look magazine. “Platoons of lawyers, investi national life, provided Wiscon- An article by Richard Wilson,/gators, advisers, financial back-{sin continues to send him to the head of the Washington Bu- ers surround McCarthy. More Senate ... reau of the Cowles Publications,/than 70 persons are playing] “If anticommunism isn't in tes: major roles in the McCarthy|style, some other great public ' “The McCarthy set is a heady |retinue.” issue will be, and Joe will do ature of Texas millionaires! Wilson goes on to mentlon|his best to ride with it.” et corner groters ...{some of the many intimates of| The McCarthy circle, Wilson the “McCarthy set,” whom he! writes, “finds its highest social characterizes in this way: level at the Al Marah Arabian i “Some want to make him|horse farm of Mrs. Garvin Tank-]. > President. Others think associa-lersiey in Maryland on the out- eS ition with him will be # spring-|skirts of Washington... board to a bigger future. Many} “Mrs. Tankersley is the for- passionately believe he will be|mer Elizabeth (Bazy) MecCor- ne the savior of America...” mick, niece of publisher Robert a The “magnet” of the hetero-/R. McCormick of Chicago and geneous group that surroundsjonce vice president of the McCarthy,” Wilson writes, ap-| Washington Times-Herald. Bazy pears to be “conspiratorial ex-|periodically gathers the Mc- gitement and controversy.” Carthy clan, with trimmings. Dalitinal vaalite auasasts and social circles in Washing- “Here MeCarthy ruhs shoul- ‘ig eas GU CaL PCaaty Suggeets sabe, elie ely PS Sell at McCarthy has reached the|ders with Mrs. Alice Roosevelt * p elective office he can hold.|Longworth; Gwen Cafritz, party- atholicism has proved a barrier|giving competitor of Perle * : _. ..—.4Mestat Gen. Albert C. Wede- meyer; Vice President Richard, Nixon; an assortment of Na-! tionalist Chinese, Central Amer-' jean and Spanish diplomats; _Mrs. Marcella duPont; Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr., com- mardant of the Marine Corps; = Mrs. Preston Davie; actress Constance Bennett, accompa- ‘med by poodle; Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, the personable Treasurer of the United States; the classi- cally beautiful Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, jr.” In the background of this ‘group, the article continues, is “a more significant, if somewhat duller group who are near to, but not quite of, the MeCarthy inner circle: Sens. William E. Jenner of Indiana, George W. Malone of Nevada, Homer E. Capehart of Indiana, Spessard Holland of Florida, Herman Welker of Idaho: Reps. Charles ‘A. Halleck of Indiana, Clarence J. Brown of Ohio. “These are sometimes supple- mented by a journalistic con- tingent: Fulton Lewis, jr., col- umnist and broadcaster; George Sokolsky, farthest right of the political columnists; Constan-: tine Brown, Washington Star, columnist; Danton Walker, an! imaginative Broadway colum- nist; Walter Trohan, chief of the Washington bureau of the Chi- cago Tribune. Westbrook Pegler, confers ough no party-goer, Hegtemty with McCarthy ; ¥ | ~ vd JAN 181954, x % er ens TERENAS Tg Te ORY ZEST y Mohr Winterrowd — Tele. Room — Holloman ——_ Miss Gandy — ee OPA KOT RECORDED ae 135 ‘JAR 14 1954 i Pore hoe Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Scar N.Y. Herald Tribune . — 7 teers . a Lev . We 2h. POLI Dates re UT aca eta eee ts ee le