Education
Born in Calvert, Texas, McCrary graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1928 and from Yale University in 1932, where he served as chairman of campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
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McCrary was interviewed by newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane while McCrary was editor of the Yale Record. Brisbane hired McCrary for the New York Daily Mirror after his graduation in 1932. In 1934, McCrary married Brisbane"s daughter Sarah.
During their honeymoon in the Bahamas, McCrary designed the format of the Daily Mirror tabloid, which he was to edit until he joined the United States Army Air Corps (later the United States Air Force) in a Puerto Rico capacity.
He flew many bomber sortes with the 8th Air Force until involvement in the invasion of Sicily and later the execution of Mussolini. McCrary was then tasked with putting together a team of photographers to record the worst damage by bombing in Europe with the purpose of justifying the use of the atomic bomb in Japan.
With his crew, he landed in Japan before the Japanese surrender in a B-36 called The Headliner to record the effects of those bombs. According to Richard Kluger"s The Paper, McCrary was responsible for John Hay Whitney"s purchase of the former The New York Herald Tribune.
He died in New York City.
Membership
He was a member of both Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Skull and Bones, where his club nickname was "Sancho Panza".
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Republican party