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...feeder system anyone could depend on. Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey wanted, instead, six months' basic training followed by two solid years in the ranks. This would be U.M.S. (Universal Military Service), not U.M.T. It also had the backing of Marine Reserve Brigadier General Melvin Maas, ex-Congressman from Minnesota, who last week was named to a Pentagon committee to restudy the whole reserve problem. "It will be expensive as hell," Maas observed. "But we ought to be able to afford it if the Russians...
...Democrats' best hopes for taking Republican Senate seats seemed to be in Colorado, where popular, down-the-line Trumanite Representative John A. Carroll appeared to be running in front of canny, conservative Senator Eugene Millikin, and in Missouri, where ex-Congressman Tom Hennings, a vigorous campaigner and onetime prosecutor, had reportedly overtaken methodical Senator Forrest Donnell. Republicans agreed that both seats were in danger...
...Wagons. All this gallimaufry seemed to embarrass Senator Brien McMahon, a traditional-type politician. As chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, McMahon had taken on the mantle of an atomic statesman, and he kept it wrapped determinedly about him. He paid no attention to his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats...
...Fair Dealer Douglas, not up for election himself, was campaigning hell-for-leather for his colleague, Senator Scott Lucas. To all good Democrats, the carefully creased, weary-looking Lucas was more than just another candidate. As majority leader of the Senate, he was a symbol of Democratic power. Republican ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, who was trying to unseat him, had a good chance of doing just that. Scott Lucas had to be saved...
...week after the release of New Jersey's ex-Representative J. Parnell Thomas from prison (TIME, Sept. 18), the only other ex-Congressman behind bars walked out to freedom. As wartime head of the House Military Affairs Committee, highhanded old Andrew Jackson May had accepted $53,000 from the notorious Garsson brothers in return for pressuring through their munitions contracts, had used his power to render many another shady service to his friends. This week he was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Ashland, Ky., and headed home to Prestonburg, after serving nine months and 13 days...