Tim Good

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“Mighty McGovern Art Players,” as the South Dakotan’s staff began calling the ever-expanding entourage: Leonard Nimoy, Marlo Thomas, John Kenneth Galbraith, a half dozen athletes—and first and second among equals, Shirley MacLaine and her luminous brother, Warren Beatty. The star of Bonnie and Clyde was organizing five celebrity rock-concert fund-raisers for McGovern. He was so close to the campaign’s inner circle that Gary Hart started wearing his hair and clothes like him.
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