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concerns a U.S. senator who shares many of McCarthy's mannerisms dying in a plane crash and arriving at the gates of heaven, where a tribunal must decide whether he is bound for heaven or hell. The cunning senator commandeers the tribunal and promptly begins rooting out subversives from "up here"
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requested permission to air it as well. Despite this success, however, Ship decided to pursue his advertising career. In 1956 he moved to
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