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Monday, December 12, 2005 12:00 AM

Sen. Eugene McCarthy remembered

Russell Baker, David Frost, Larry King, Gloria Steinem, Tip O'Neill and others recall their encounters with the legendary senator.
By Dana Cook

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  • Monday, December 12, 2005 08:09 PM

    No Bebe Buelle?

    Dana Cook left out the part where super-groupie Bebe Buelle meets Eugene McCarthy at a party at the Playboy Mansion, he falls in love with here at first sight, and she with him, but her current boyfriends, Mick Jagger, Todd Rundgren and Steven Tyler, in jealous rages, gang up on McCarthy and threaten to thrash him within an inch of his life.

    In order to spare Gene this awful fate, a disappointed Bebe decides she must leave the party immediately, which she does, but from that time on, she has always wondered what "might have been" between her and The Senator.

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