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Connecticut. In a Republican year in a normally Republican state, a Republican governor should have little trouble getting reelected. The news from Connecticut was that Governor James C. Shannon, who succeeded to the office last March on the death of Governor James L. McConaughy, was getting a run for his money. The man who was doing it was ex-OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, who was crisscrossing the state, dropping in at the county fairs (sometimes joining in the softball games), and appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal...
...tragedy of incompatible blood types (Rh-positive and Rh-negative) causes some married couples to condemn their own babies to death in infancy-or even before birth. Last week slim, brunette Mrs. Bettina B. Carter, 38, of Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, told the Pennsylvania State Medical Society of a possible remedy...
...Those who doubted his rise to Primate thought he would be Prime Minister instead. An Oxford don at 22 after a double First, he became a headmaster at 28, bishop at 39, archbishop at 47, and the sparkplug of so many social, educational and spiritual reforms that his sudden death at 63 took away a man uniquely fitted to give religious leadership in the crucial first decade after World...
There really are people like Saxon, and Mr. Wakeman has managed to get whiffs of the truth about them into his leading character. What is more important, Bob Montgomery performs wonders with the part. Montgomery is one of the few graceful actors left since the death of Osgood Perkins, and he appears to have wit, experience and charm to burn. This is not one of his better roles, and he successfully gives the illusion of playing it without ever touching the handlebars; but in the midst of a well-tooled piece of emptiness, his is an enchanting performance to watch...
...more often cowards than heroes, Washington had little respect. Of one group of 400 recruits, 114 deserted. More than once they broke and ran as soon as enemy were reported near. Washington hanged two deserters who had been sentenced to death by shooting and wrote to the Governor: "Your Honor will, I hope, excuse my hanging instead of shooting them. It conveyed much more terror to others; and it was for example sake...