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...Skunk. She loved him at sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
Results in key battles: CONNECTICUT. In normally Republican Connecticut, long-jawed Chester Bowles, former OPAdministrator, who had campaigned hard at picnics and ball games for "voluntary" price control and more state aid for housiag, upset all predictions by edging out Republican incumbent James C. Shannon, a Bridgeport lawyer. Said surprised New Dealer Bowles: "The Roosevelt spirit has proved itself to be very much alive today...
...Patterson will sail for Europe and a spell of reporting. With her will go her friend, Publisher Dorothy Thackrey of the New Dealing, pro-Zionist New York Post. Alicia has plenty of plans to keep her busy when she gets back. The Guggenheims are going into radio at Bridgeport, Conn., and some day Alicia would like to surround New York City with Newsdays in Westchester and New Jersey. "There are a few papers here & there," she says with a predatory glint, "that I'd like to compete with...
Their first concert was in Bridgeport, Conn., in a kind of sneak preview before their big night in Carnegie Hall. After five curtain calls, Musical Director Henry Barraud asked an American: "Is that good? In France that would be very good...
Reporters dubbed him "the poor man's candidate." He addressed 400 A.F.L. unionists in Bridgeport, Conn., the annual convention of the United Hebrew Trades in Atlantic City, a Liberal Party meeting in New York. In Worcester, Mass, he lit into Dewey's statement on atomic energy: "Someone should point out to the governor of New York that it was the 'dead hand' of Government which created the atomic bomb." His good temper was unfailing. Asked by New Haven reporters if he thought the ticket was going to win, he retorted with a grin: "Certainly. What...