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...oblivious U.S. government, classes herself an Independent Republican and may attract some disgruntled Taftites. The Democrats are more worried about McLevy, however, than the regular Republicans are about Kellems. McLevy is not much of a Socialist, but he's an unbelievably strong party boss in his city of Bridgeport, where he has been mayor for more than ten years...
...Bridgeport, Conn. Stevenson began a motor trip which took him through New Haven and the mill towns of the Naugatuck River Valley. Braving drizzly weather, the Democratic candidate made brief, open-air speeches in nearly every town through which he passed. Repeatedly he ridiculed Republican criticisms of his quip-studded speeches and hammered away at the Eisenhower-Taft alliance. He warned the staunch Democrats of industrial New Britain: "If the Republicans by some mischance are elected this fall, people calling the White House would have to ask which President is in today: the five-star general from Kansas...
Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...
Sharp Answer. In Bridgeport, Conn., James Augustus. 29. taken to the hospital with cuts on his left hand, right arm and chest, told police that his wife took after him with a kitchen knife when he asked, at bedtime: "Why don't we have clean sheets...
...every man can turn an $85,000 investment into a profit of $1,005,000 in two short years. Last week Robert Hirsch, a Bridgeport, Conn, insurance man, turned the trick with the help of some Fair Deal bumbling in Washington...