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OU? ene NSE ETON ee CM Rr ge OL are ca agemes, ai. Wilson states that MeCar- ; e, the former Jean Fraser Kerr, probahlywhed—her first influence with the Senator when sie was able to “clean ... Up a bit” the “barnyard lan- guage” he used in “earthy” dis- cussions about cows on the Sen- ate floor. . During thetr on-off romance, Wilson continues, the then Miss Kerr {went back to stript writ- ing gnd program arranging, helping to launch a recorded television. series called Facts Forum. The program was backed by H. L, Hunt, Dallas oil operator, sometimes called the richest Irian in America. Me: Carthy was the first guest star on the. program. Some say Hunt will eventually back him in a series of reports to the Na- tion on is activities...” Some of McCarthy’s many other Texas associates are noted in the article: ; ".,.He recently stayed at the home of Douglas Marshall, son- in-law of H. R. Cullen, the oil multimillionaire, who has a keen interest in McCarthy. $5000@ to 1952 Campaign “Cullen contributed §5000, the ‘legal limit, to Joe's campaign for reelection in 1952. Joe was successful but ran well behind President Eisenhower's Wiscon- sin vote. Cullen put up $48,000, in addition, to “help other can- didates for Congress in 1952." Another of] man listed among McCarthy's “backers and asso- ciates” is “Clint Murchison, who owns Henry Holt & Co., book publishers in New York. Like Joe’s other big Texas friend, Hunt, Murchison is in- terested in influencing public opinion. “Austin Haneock, former San Antonio Insurance executive, is é friend of McCarthy, Hancock heads an organization called the American Heritage Protective Association. He has said that he hopes to help get the Repub- lican presidential nomination for McCarthy. “Some of McCarthy's volun- {cer helpers have been very in- fluential in his career. One of them is a former FBI agent, Robert E. Lee, recently ap- pointed by President Eisen- hower to the Federal Communi- cations Commission... Lee left the FBI, where he was one of J... Edgar Hoover's brightest young men, for a position ag one Se teal of the chief staff membefs of the House Committee on Ap- propristions ...” Wilson notes that a list of: suspected subversives in the State Department was compiled by that committee, and that Mc- ‘Carthy’s Red “ease studies” which plunged him into the Na- jHon’s headlines in 1950, “were ‘all on the list Lee compiled for lthe Republican Congress in j2047.” oi er eee eh oat nt “WGC 2G M5 WIE, LC ADLICIC continues, “are close personal friends of the Senator and Jean- nie, often teaming up on parties). with the Edward K. Nellors.| Nellor is a former reporter for the New York Sun, who worked for several years as an investi- gator and reporter for Fulton Lewis. He still writes Lewis’ syndicated column in the Hearst newspapers, but is also inde-/, pendently employed as a Wash-|' he the ey fat ington correspondent North American Newspaper Al- liance. He became an unofficial, volunteer adviser to McCarthy on the fairly sound journalistic assumption that he could thus Kee ee of what McCarthy was do tee . “Joe's relations with his fel- low men in the United States Senate are strained and prob- ably always will be. Vice Presi- dent Nixon, s friend, but no boon companion, has taken on the dif-|, ficult assignment of adjusting}! McCarthy and the Eisenhower | Administration to each other.|| .. Sen, William E. Jenner... | chafes over Joe’s invasion of} what Jenner considers his own); ‘hunting preserves as chairman|/ of the Senate (sub) Committee|: on Internal Security ... Wisconsin supporters of Mc- Carthy named in the article in- clude Walter’ Harnischfeger, ‘president of the Harnischfeger Corp., Tom Korb, counsel for that firm, and Wayne Hood, for- mer State chairman in Wis econsin. “McCarthy's Wiscon- sin newspaper backers include John Heid], managing editor of the Appleton Post-Crescent and a boyhood friend; John Wyn- aard of Madison, columnist fr a dozen Republican papers; Rex Karney, editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal...” “The McCarthy of today,” the article states, “is a far cry from the one-man operator who drew these scores of people into his orbit. He is now an entity, com- plete with a staff of 50. He has money, powerful backing and impressive public support. Un-; confirmed rumors in Washing- ton credit him with : private, ‘gee sta nance ¥ conitri- bute meth is dented—aa 2} 7 ark cfc erate peas Ce OR PET gr a Pen Ee ER er RENE OY ot ea LC REA SOE Pa ame as ea «