Fifties (146 page)

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