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Title: Only With­You Artist: The­McCrarys Album: All­Night Music Genre:­Soul / Funk Year:­1982 Track Number:­8 Bit Rate: 192 kbps

Artist: Mike­McCrary Title: The­Picture of­Transformed­Life Bitrate: 48­kbps Duration: 43:42

At last someone has­discovered one of­the most fascinating­lives of the 20th­century. As a­crusading­journalist, John­Reagan 'Tex' McCrary­led the way from­newspapering into­radio and­television. As a­handsome adventurer,­this well-connected­Yalie romanced some­of the world's most­talented (and­richest) women,­winding up a­globe-girdling love­affair by marrying­Jinx Falkenburg,­then America's top­model and later his­partner on the air. ­As a brave Army Air­Corps colonel in­World War II, he­took the first group­of reporters into­devastated­Hiroshima, and was­instrumental in the­creation of an­independent U.S. Air­Force. As a­political activist,­he was a powerful­influence in pulling­General Eisenhower­back from Paris to­wrench the­Republican­presidential­nomination from the­hard right—even­though his advocacy­cost him his network­job. As a pioneer­publicist, Tex­brought a social­conscience to the­builder of Levittown­and sent a kid he­was mentoring (me)­to Moscow to set up­the historic­'kitchen debate'­between Nikita­Khrushchev and­Richard Nixon. I­could never get him­to write his memoirs­before he died; the­active octogenarian­stubbornly said 'I­won't live my life­with eyes on the­rear-view mirror.'­But Chuck Kelly, his­longtime friend,­interviewed him­skillfully and­often, and now we­have an adventurer's­eye-view of­McCrary's­little-known role in­tempestuous­times.—William­Safire