Bull's-Eye

The townspeople of Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,297) say there is no stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating.

Last week the townspeople of Fulton agreed that never had Bullet shot so high, or rung the bell such a bong. For the college's annual Green Foundation lecture, supposed to be delivered by a bigwig "of international reputation," Bullet McCluer boldly went after really big game. He confided in Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to Harry Truman, a star football center at Westminster when Bullet was a star debater. Vaughan took him in to see the President. Look, said Bullet, talking fast, what a great idea it would be--especially at Fulton, in the heart of the Midwest, where some people have said that isolationism is not dead-- The President nodded.

With the help of Missouri's Harry Truman, Bullet McCluer bagged the academic catch of the year: Winston Churchill, to lecture in the 3,000-seat college gymnasium March 5, introduced by Harry

Truman. Fulton expects 30,000 people to come to hear the former prime minister speak. Just how the county seat town of Fulton (which has only two hotels, and no railroad or airport) will handle its big day, Bullet McCluer left up to the old folks at home.

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