REPUBLICANS: Bull Mooser

Among the Maryland delegates introduced to Candidate Dwight Eisenhower at the 1952 G.O.P. convention was Johns Hopkins University Professor Malcolm Moos. "Professor of what?" asked Ike, shaking hands. "Political science," responded bony (5 ft. 10 in., 130 Ibs.), "Mac" Moos. "Well," said Ike, "I am going to be one of your first students." Last week the student hired the professor as chief presidential speechwriter.

The son of a onetime Minnesota Republican state chairman who revered Teddy Roosevelt, Mac Moos, 42, lightly labels himself "a full-blooded Bull Moose Republican," is an energetic mixture of egghead author and practical politician. While writing...

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