Fifties (146 page)

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Authors: David Halberstam

Joint Chiefs and,
83-84
,
103
,
105
,
106
,
109
1952 election and,
204
onset of Korean War and,
68-70
,
75
,
77
,
85
,
112
personality of,
80-83
political ambition of,
78-79
,
204-5
political decline of,
203-4
prelude to Korean War and,
64
,
65
sycophants of,
105
Truman’s firing of,
57
,
113-14
,
115
,
204
Truman’s meeting with,
85-86
,
105
Macauley, Ed,
694
Macdonald, Dwight,
531-32
McCall, David,
502
McCall’s
,
210
,
590
,
594
,
595
McCardle, Carl,
386
McCarran, Patrick A.,
341
McCarten, John,
79
McCarthy, Joseph,
17
,
49-59
,
211
,
213
,
233
,
235
,
326
,
327
,
340
,
351
,
356
,
699
,
722
alcoholism of,
54
Army hearings and,
54-55
,
251-52
,
330
Eisenhower and,
250-52
Hoover and,
54
,
252
,
340
Oppenheimer case and,
341
,
342
political decline of,
250-53
Wheeling speech of,
49-50
,
58
McCarthyism, McCarthy era,
49-59
,
235
,
329-30
effect of,
52
media and,
55
popular literature and,
59-60
Republicans and,
56-58
Stevenson on,
233-34
Taft and,
55
,
57-59
,
252
McCloy, John J.,
35
,
63
,
349
,
389
McCormick, Katharine Dexter,
282
,
287-88
,
292
,
293
,
599
,
602
,
603
McCormick, Robert R.,
5
,
6
,
53
,
214-18
,
221
McCulloch, Frank,
50
,
51-52
McCutcheon, Richard,
645
,
647
McDonald, Dick,
120-21
,
155-60
,
162-65
,
170
,
171-72
McDonald, Maurice “Mac,”
120-21
,
155-60
,
162-65
,
170
,
171-72
McDonald’s,
156-72
,
506
Coke and,
165-66
first store of,
156
franchising and,
159-60
,
163
,
165
,
168-70
mechanization and,
157-59
quality control and,
169-70
standardization and,
164
success of,
159
see also
Kroc, Ray
McDougall, Walter,
613
,
615
,
622
McElroy, Neil,
625-26
McGee, Frank,
558-59
,
679
McIntyre, O. O.,
181
McKellar, Kenneth,
189
MacKichan, Clare,
493
McMahon, Brien,
36
,
46
,
331
McMath, Sid,
672
McMillin, Miles,
55
Mademoiselle
,
589
Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour, The
,
182
Make Room for Daddy
,
513
Malenkov, Georgi,
613
Malone, George “Molly,”
50
Manchester, William,
204
Manchester Guardian
,
9
Manhattan Project,
28
,
32
,
34
,
42
,
351
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The
(Wilson),
485
,
521-23
,
525
Mannes, Marya,
231
Mansfield, Jayne,
564
Mao Tse-tung,
66
,
68
,
72
,
85
,
86
,
718
Marbury, William,
12
Marcantonio, Vito,
189
March, Earle,
275
March, Fredric,
266
March, Hal,
645
Marder, Murrey,
56
,
250
Markel, Hazel,
624
Marker, Russell,
293
Marks, Herbert,
332
,
343
Marlboro cigarettes,
504
Marshall, George C.,
106
on Chiang,
68
Dewey and,
7
Eisenhower and,
236
,
250
,
251
MacArthur and,
78
,
82
,
103
,
105
Ridgway and,
110
right-wing attacks on,
57
,
235
,
251
Stevenson and,
219
,
235
,
236
UMT supported by,
28
Marshall, S. L. A.,
108
Marshall, Thurgood,
413-14
Mars Project
(von Braun),
606
Martin, Dean,
473
Martin, Joseph W., Jr.,
114
Martineau, Pierre,
504
Marty
,
656
Marx, Groucho,
566-67
Marx, Karl,
117
,
336-37
Masaryck, Jan,
15
M*A*S*H
,
73-74
Massey, Raymond,
482
,
483
“massive retaliation” doctrine,
395-96
Masters of Deceit
(Hoover),
336-37
Matos, Huber,
723
Matthews, Herbert,
717-18
,
724
Mauchly, John,
93
,
94
,
96
“Maybellene,”
471
Mayer, Louis B.,
261
Mays, Willie,
692
Medaris, John,
612-13
,
621
Meet the Press
,
222
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
,
447
Memphis Press Scimitar
,
449
Men, The
,
254-55
Merton, Thomas,
652
,
654
Messner, Julian,
577
,
582
Messner, Kitty,
582-83
,
584
Mesta, Perle,
624
Metalious, George,
581
,
582
,
583
,
585
Metalious, Grace,
577-85
Metalious, Marsha,
581
,
585
Michaelis, John “Mike,”
74
,
112
Middleton, Troy,
250
Mikoyan, Anastas,
723
Milam, J. W.,
431-35
,
438
,
439
,
440
Miller, Arthur,
262
,
563
,
564
,
568-69
Miller, Edward,
378
Miller, Merle,
21
Miller, Mitch,
471
Miller, Warren,
585
Millikan, Robert,
32
“Millionaire’s Wife” (Friedan),
593
Mills, C. Wright,
526-35
alienation and,
527-28
,
530
New Left and,
527
,
528
,
530
,
531
Millstein, Gilbert,
305
Milwaukee Journal
,
55
,
253
Minton, Sherman,
411
,
422
Mirror Makers, The
(Fox),
500
missile gap debate,
698-700
Mitchum, Robert,
269
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex
(Lundberg and Farnham),
589
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi,
361
,
363
,
364
,
365-68
,
370
Monde, Le
(Paris),
402
Monitor
,
676
Monnet, Jean,
394
Monroe, Bill,
458
Monroe, Marilyn,
563-70
Montgomery Advertiser
,
554
,
555
,
556
,
557-58
,
559
,
562
Montgomery bus boycott,
542-48
,
554-62
idea for,
542-43
King and,
546-47
,
556-57
,
559-62
precipitating incident of,
539-40
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA),
546
,
555
Moondog Show, The
,
464
Moore, Scotty,
457-58
Morgan, Ted,
303
,
306
Morrison, Philip,
331
Morrow, Frederic,
423-27
,
689
Mossadegh, Mohammed,
359
,
361
,
363-68
,
370
motels,
see
Holiday Inn
Mott, Stan,
127
“Move On Up a Little Higher,”
463
Mumford, Lewis,
139-41
Mundt, Karl,
13
,
14
,
56-57
,
233
,
342
Murchison, Clint,
336
Murphy, Charles J. V.,
341
Murphy, Gardner,
195-96
Murphy, George,
10
Murphy, Robert,
45
Murrow, Edward R.,
280
,
644
,
688
,
702-3
Musial, Stan,
695
music,
456
black culture and,
463-65
,
691
new generation and,
472
Sam Phillips and,
466-71
technology and,
470-71
My Favorite Husband
,
196
My Gun is Quick
(Spillane),
60
“My Happiness,”
457
Myrdal, Gunnar,
413
My Three Sons
,
630
Nader, Ralph,
641
Nashville Tennessean
,
680

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