Word: benton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicholas Benton '51, chairman of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, last night turned down a television offer for "Buddha Knows Best," the 1950 show...
...Benton explained that the offer, made by Ed Sullivan, Broadway columnist and television master of ceremonies, would conflict with University regulations prohibiting the inclusion of Harvard and Harvard institutions in commercial radio and television programs...
...Missouri, Thomas C. Hennings Jr., onetime Congressman, defeated dogged, conservative Forrest Donnell, became the only Democrat to turn a Republican out of a Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
Democrats William Benton (incumbent in Connecticut) and Thomas C. Hennings of Missouri also...
...coony, but anonymous Democratic bigwig made a personal three-state poll on Senate races, returned to Washington convinced that Democrat Benton would lose in Connecticut, that Democrat Lehman would win in New York. "I just don't know what to think about Ohio...