Upstart

Like Tennyson's brook, Senator Charles Linza McNary seems to go on forever. Republican McNary went from Oregon to the Senate, at 43, in World War I: he is still there, at 67, in World War II. This year up popped a brash Republican to take a crack at Invincible Charlie. Squat, bespectacled Attorney Arthur M. Geary is no glamor boy, is considered a nuisance by most Oregon G.O.P. leaders. But he slung out a slogan that no one could ignore: "MacArthur v. McNaryism."

Last week Candidate Geary was bee-busy, buzzing around the State in his Mercury, stinging away at McNary's record. To Oregon citizens, who now feel close to the battlefront, he recalled McNary's pre-Pearl Harbor stand: against repealing the Neutrality Act, against extending the draft.

Even McNary's closest friends expect him to be beaten some year: Upstart Geary thought 1942 was the year.

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