Early Life and Career
McCall was born in Egypt, Massachusetts on March 22, 1913. He was the grandson of copper-king Thomas Lawson and Massachusetts governor and congressman Samuel W. McCall. As a child he divided his time between Thomas Lawson's Massachusetts estate named Dreamwold and his father’s ranch near Prineville, Oregon named Westernwold.
Upon graduation from Redmond High School, McCall enrolled at the University of Oregon. Due to his family's growing financial problems he was forced to sit out long periods and took five years to earn his degree in journalism.
After graduating, he moved to Moscow, Idaho in February 1937 to write for the News-Review, and following a merger, the Daily Idahonian.
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